$37.4M new wing at L’Aventure Secondary School commissioned

Minister of Education Priya Manickchand speaking to Home Economic students at the L’Aventure Secondary School on Wednesday. (GINA photo)

Minister of Education Priya Manickchand on Wednesday commissioned a new wing at the L’Aventure Secondary School, Canal Number One Polder, West Bank Demerara.

Fire had destroyed a section of the school in September last year, displacing some 700 students who were offered accommodation at a property belonging to public-spirited citizen Komal Singh in order to continue their education while the wing was being rebuilt, a press release from GINA stated.

Manickchand presented Singh with a plaque in acknowledgement of his charitableness in accommodating the displaced students.

GINA noted that L’Aventure School was formally a primary top and under the Education Ministry’s Secondary