GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC—The Guyana authorities says it would “totally” assist college students affected by the fireplace on Wednesday on the privately owned Mae’s faculties in Subryanville, a neighborhood in Demerara-Mahaica.
“The federal government will assist totally. As you recognize, we deal with our non-public faculties and our non-public college youngsters the identical approach we do public faculties with each intent and objective,” stated Training Minister Priya Manickchand, including that the Examinations Division of the Ministry was setting up methods to accommodate college students who can be writing examinations by the Barbados-based Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) and the Grade Six Evaluation.
“We’re simply a few weeks away from Grade Six, and we’re ensuring they’re snug and seated, and the CXC youngsters are additionally supplied for. So, as I converse, our Exams Division is at the moment taking a look at two locations to attempt to make that dedication, however they’ll get our full assist,” she added.
In a press release, Mae’s Faculty, which has roughly 1000 college students throughout its Nursery, Major, and Secondary ranges, stated that having skilled the “unlucky occasion of a fireplace which destroyed its primary construction,” it’s “at the moment placing pressing methods in place to make sure that the tutorial journey of its youngsters continues uninterrupted.”
It stated that the constructing beforehand housed the playground and first and secondary college students and that “to this point, all college students, lecturers, and employees members have been safely accounted for, and the Guyana Hearth Service has verified this.”
Nonetheless, the varsity administration stated that, in collaboration with the Ministry of Training, it “is shortly transferring to supply non permanent lodging for all displaced college students.
“Dad and mom are suggested to take care of contact with their baby’s/youngsters’s respective class lecturers to remain abreast of all ongoing developments, as they change into obtainable,” the Mae Faculty stated, thanking the federal government “and all the companies that have been on the bottom, inside minutes of this unlucky occasion, to supply assist.
“We additionally thank the numerous mother and father for his or her cooperation and belief in our methods which might be being put in place to get better,” it added.
Hearth Chief Gregory Wickham stated that there have been no reported casualties within the blaze that shortly swept via the decades-old picket constructing.
In a quick assertion, the Ministry of Dwelling Affairs stated that “preliminary experiences point out that the blaze started earlier than 8:00 am (native time) and that “a dad or mum on the scene recounted seeing a small fireplace inside one of many buildings. Regardless of efforts to extinguish it, the flames shortly unfold, engulfing your complete college.”
