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Jan 26, 2025 News
Kaieteur News- The government through the Ministry of Education is set to spend $296 million to construct a new Houston Secondary School in Region Four.
This is according to information provided by the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) office. The $296,916,480 contract was recently awarded to contractor K&S General Contractors Inc.
Kaieteur News understands that Houston Secondary, which is an old two-storey wooden building, has been in existence for several years now. It currently accommodates children living on the East Bank of Demerara from communities such as Houston, Agricola and Peters Hall.
This newspaper reported that the Ministry of Education has embarked on an aggressive programme to ensure that the nation’s children have access to secondary education. Since taking office in 2020, the Education Ministry has not only been constructing schools, but has also undertaken the reconstruction and upgrading of school buildings.
This is to ensure students are receiving the same quality education in a more spacious and comfortable environment.
At the ministry’s recent end-of-year press conference, Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand said that since assuming office government spent approximately $31 billion to either construct, reconstruct, rehabilitate or extend schools across the country.
Currently too, a total of 37 secondary school projects have been undertaken in the country, some of which have been completed.
In addition to the new secondary school that is to be constructed at Houston, the ministry is also constructing a large secondary school at Kaneville, and at Prospect on the East Bank of Demerara. When these projects are completed, overcrowding is expected to be a thing of the past.
(The Houston Secondary School located on the East Bank of Demerara.)
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