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Karasabai $1.7B secondary school will be ready for September – Toshao
…says project is 70% complete
(Kaieteur News) – Almost three years after the sod was turned for the construction of the $1.7 billion Karasabai Secondary School in Region Nine, the project is approximately 70 per cent complete and is expected to be ready for the new academic year in September.
This is according to Village Toshao, David Albert.
It was reported that the $1,773,930,690 school project was expected to be completed by September 2025, however works are still ongoing.
“They had some delay in terms of materials but they are coming around and the manager, when we had a word with him the other day when the minster was here, (he said) within the next four to five months they should complete… The school should be ready for the new academic year,” Toshao Albert told this publication on Friday.
The Karasabai Secondary School project.
He said the school is a very complex and is one of the largest secondary schools in the hinterland. Along with the school, male and female dormitories for students and living quarters for teachers are being constructed as well.
The Toshao said secondary aged students are currently being accommodated at the primary school.
The project is being undertaken by Avinash Contracting and Scrap Metal Inc who was awarded the contract in 2022.
The education ministry in a release had stated that the modern school complex will be fitted with ten buildings, which would include the main teaching block and allied lecturing facilities, modern science laboratory for Physics, Chemistry and Biology, TVET Centres, combined Home Economics and cafeteria area, teachers’ quarters and an outdoor sitting forecourt.
The ministry noted that once completed, the facility will house and will cater for 500 students in the classroom, and 250 students in the dormitories.
According to the ministry students will no longer have to traverse rough terrains daily for school. Students from Karasabai and all other neighbouring villages will have the opportunity to pursue a sound secondary education. Students in the Karasabai sub-district from communities such as Tiger Pond, Cracrana, Tsushima, Kokshebai and Yurong Paru are currently either not receiving a secondary education or are being educated at primary tops, a secondary department in a primary school, the ministry shared.
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