300 more students to be housed at Parika-Salem Secondary School

-after $42M extension project

The Parika-Salem Secondary School is being extended to accommodate 300 more students, in a $42 million project that is to be completed next April.

Education Minister Priya Manickchand, addressing parents of students as well as teachers at the school yesterday, said the project will also see computer rooms and science labs being housed in the new building that is being constructed.

Kares Construction, which won the bid for the project, has assured the ministry that the building will be completed by April 8, 2013 and a blueprint of the building along with an estimate of the materials to be used