A fire of unknown origin destroyed a section of the North Ruimveldt Multilateral Secondary yesterday and Minister of Education Priya Manickchand has since assured that the education of the more than 500 enrolled students will not be disrupted.
The fire was reported to have started around 1pm and quickly ripped through a building that housed the Science and Information Technology (IT) labs, the Home Economics Department and a number of classrooms. Firefighters battled the flames up to last evening when they were eventually put out. Up to press time there were at the scene monitoring.
The North Ruimveldt Multilateral Secondary school, which is among the List ‘A’ schools in Georgetown, has an enrollment of 512 students and 39 teachers.
