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Dilapidated structure at Enmore school an eyesore
This being the August vacation period for most students, one would expect that while ‘school’s out’, the buildings and compounds would be secured, but this seems not to be the case at the Enmore Primary School.
Kaieteur News visited this school on Saturday last and there was not a single soul in sight, while the gate at the entrance of the compound was wide open.
This dilapidated structure which once served as a carpentry wing currently sits behind the Enmore Primary School on the East Coast of Demerara like a monument.
There was no padlock on the gate and even though it was bolted, anyone could easily enter the premises at any given time.
At the back of the school there is currently a concrete structure which once served as a ‘Carpentry Wing’for students of the school who were previously taught this skill in addition to academics.
One resident told this newspaper that this dilapidated building is not functional and it seems to have been neglected by the relevant authorities.
“The school used to teach Carpentry there for the children. It was good for them ‘cause this is countryside and many times it helps to know carpentry. But for a long time now it just left like that, years, I telling you, and nobody using it. If they have no use for it, dem should break it down and don’t leff it like that, if dem children playing hide and seek and it collapse on them, what them going to do?” questioned one man.
Other villagers explained that while this building may not presently be posing a threat to them, it does serve as a haven for petty thieves and criminals.
“When that place leff open and dem lil thief men and pick pocket boys on the roads rob people at nights, dem does run and hide there, sometimes. Imagine in a school compound, and even though we may know them, we can’t say nothing but watch on. Them got to do something about that old bruk down place in the school yard,” were the words of a woman who lives around the area.
Another resident, a mother of two children who are presently attending the school, told Kaieteur News that the building should be “restored to its former glory days.”
“Just like how dem could spend millions of dollars for different things, them could find some money to repair the place and get someone to teach back carpentry stuff or other classes there and it would be good for all of we here. We children could learn other things from earlier ages,” added the woman.
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