Baksh deeply concerned about Golden Grove Secondary, slams region

Parents protesting outside the school on the first day of the new school year. (Stabroek News file photo)

Education Minister Shaik Baksh yesterday expressed deep concern about what he said was the negligence of the Region Four administration in carrying out critical renovation works at the Golden Grove Secondary School which has been at the centre of an uproar over its poor condition.

Parents protested the state of the school at the opening of the new term and have been given a series of promises. However, repairs to the sanitary, electrical and other physical facilities at the 45-year-old school are still to be done.

Baksh, in a statement, said that representatives of the school’s Parent Teacher Association (PTA) met regional officials two