St Sidwell’s students, teachers traumatised by tear gas

A St Sidwell’s classroom emptied by the tear gas

Eight students and a teacher of St Sidwell’s Primary School, in Georgetown, were yesterday taken to hospital for treatment after police fired tear gas at the nearby Square of the Revolution.

Both students and teachers of the school were traumatised as a result of the action, which was intended to disperse onlookers observing police as they tried to break up an illegal march.

According to school headmistress