Rebuilding of Linden school likely to go over a year -Manickchand

Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand (centre in background) speaking to residents yesterday.

The reconstruction of the One Mile Primary School at Linden is likely to take more than a year, Education Minister Priya Manickchand announced yesterday, while assuring that none of the students displaced by the situation would be disadvantaged.

Manickchand was at the time addressing parents, teachers and concerned residents of Linden who crammed into the auditorium of the Wismar Hill Primary School, during a visit by the minister and senior officers of the Education Ministry and the region for an update on the school.

Although Manickchand emphasised that the current priority is accommodating the 830 students displaced as a result of the torching of the school building, her news did not sit well with