Parents blockade Wisburg Secondary to protest conditions

Regional PTA Chairman Pastor Selwyn Sills speaks to protesting parents yesterday.

Students and teachers of Wisburg Secondary are likely to be back in their classrooms this morning, following commitments by the regional administration to address conditions at the school that triggered a protest by parents yesterday.

The Parent-Teachers Association (PTA) of the secondary school yesterday morning locked its gates in protest against what it described as the non-responsiveness of regional and education officials to several issues.

Among the problems are: the constant flooding of the Home Economics Depart-ment; the mosquito infestation; and the exposed electrical outlets in most of the classrooms. Stabroek News was told that some of these