New faces in Parliament…John Adams – APNU

A teacher for 24 years, new A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) parliamentarian John Adams, hopes that by the end of the next five years teachers and students of the Vreed-en-Hoop Secondary School will no longer have to be away from school for about four days every time there is a high tide.

“Every time there is a high tide the school is inundated, and at this very moment we are out of school because yesterday [May 7] when we turned up for work the compound was flooded and the school is situated adjacent to an… active cemetery, so we know the health risk that can happen there so we had to shut the school,” Adams told the Sunday Stabroek.

Unfortunately for the children who are writing CSEC they were forced to