New classrooms at Jose Marti High to be ready next week
LAURISTON Wilson, project manager in the Ministry of Education, has given the assurance that the classrooms under construction at the Jose Marti Technical High school in St Catherine will be completed by the middle of this month.
“We should have access to that building when the students return from mid-term holiday,” Wilson said, adding that another building which will be used as a laboratory will be completed for November.
Wilson told the Observer that the contractor was in the process of adding the finishing touch such as installing windows, finishing floors and painting.
“The contractor informed that the delays were caused by cement and inclement weather which prevented him from meeting the deadline for the new school year in September,” he said.
Some 1,800 new Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT) students along with returning grades eight and nine were forced to stay at home for up to three days each week because there was no space to accommodate them all at once.
The school said the Ministry of Education had placed 600 additional GSAT students at the institution this year, hoping that they would have been accommodated in newly built classrooms.