Teachers at St George’s College and their representing union, TTUTA, staged a lunchtime protest yesterday to show their dissatisfaction with Education Minister Dr Nyan Gadsby-Dolly whom they accused of using heavy handed tactics in dealing with them rather than addressing concerns at the school.
Moments before a planned lunchtime protest at the Barataria school, the Education Ministry issued a strongly worded media statement inferring internal sabotage was preventing the school from its vision of success.
It also said an investigation had been launched into the disappearance of 80 fans donated to the school.
As such, the ministry said the school will now be more closely monitored by a school supervisor.
The teachers quietly vacated the school en masse to have their lunch outside the compound.
The TTUTA Head visited the school moments before the bell rang and said that the teachers were exercising their rights to eat in peace at a place they felt safe.
This came a day after the recently reopened school experienced what some called unprecedented flooding on Tuesday.
That same day (September 17) was the deadline given to the school’s administration by teachers to address the outstanding infrastructural issues they said were still present weeks into the new academic year.