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Closing Enterprise, Paradise and Enmore schools ill-conceived 

May 04, 2023 Letters

Dear Editor,

Why is the  PPP/C Ministry of Education closing the Enterprise, Paradise and EnmorePrimary  schools and shifting the students to the Good Hope Secondary which is about to be finished construction? Those three schools are respectively very far from where students have to travel.  How are these students to get to Good Hope in the early morning rush hour when there is no free public transportation to take them to school? Working class parents will now be burdened with extra traveling expenses to daily send their children to school. Isn’t this an ill-conceived policy?  Minister of Education Priya Manickchand while visiting the Enterprise Primary school on Wednesday announced  the closure of  what the Department of Public Information (DPI) described as the “Primary top” -whatever that means- schools.

“We will close this (sic) primary top shortly. So, all of the children currently in this primary top will go to discreet high schools, a high school by themselves. We’re going to be able to do that because the Good Hope Secondary is going to be completed shortly. The school started many years ago. As you know the previous (APNU-AFC) government was unable to finish it,” she told the parents gathered.

The Enmore students will be most affected as they are some 5 miles from Good Hope.  Moreover Enmore and Enterprise  are economically depressed areas since the APNU-AFC government  closed the Enmore sugar factory. The factory was the chief employer of sugar workers in the area.

The DPI reported that Minister Manickchand said “When you fail to finish a school, we have children who should be in a secondary school sitting in a primary school with inadequate education; that’s your children here, we’re going to be able to change that shortly.”

Don’t be surprised if the PPP/C government suffers the wrath of parents of these three schools at the upcoming Local Government Elections.

Respectfully,

Sultan Mohamed

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