Education Minister Dr. Tim Gopeesingh made the announcement at the post cabinet media briefing on Thursday. He said more than 100 students have been assigned to the school in forms one to three.
The Minister was emphatic that the school is safe. He said studies on air quality and the construction condcuted by the Caribbean Industrial Research Institute (CARIRI), Rose Environmental Ltd and Geo-Tech Ltd everything is in keeping with acceptable standards.
Gopeesingh said the government has to invest $30 million to repair the building. This involved substructure work and repaving.
The school was built 11 years ago by the Panday UNC administration but the Manning PNM administration refused to open it saying it was not safe for students. During that period, the government paid $6 million for security at the building.
The Minister also gave the assurance that the current State of Emergency would not affect schools that operate on normal hours.
He also promised that students entering high school for the first time will get free laptops by the end of the first week of October.
The investment on the computers this year would be $53 million at a unit cost of US$460. That's $83 million less that the cost paid last year. Gopeesingh alsop said this year the computers will have 14 software packages, seven more than what was offered last year, he said.
The contract to provide the laptops was awarded to Lenovo, a Chinese multinational computer company that is part of the IBM corporation.
The investment on the computers this year would be $53 million at a unit cost of US$460. That's $83 million less that the cost paid last year. Gopeesingh alsop said this year the computers will have 14 software packages, seven more than what was offered last year, he said.
The contract to provide the laptops was awarded to Lenovo, a Chinese multinational computer company that is part of the IBM corporation.
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