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Posted: Monday 27 July, 2015 at 11:02 AM

Solution to BHS fiasco high on Government’s agenda

Prime Minister Dr. the Hon. Timothy Harris
By: Stanford Conway, SKNVibes.com

    BASSETERRE, St. Kitts - BY way of public statement on Sugar City Rock, Prime Minister Dr. the Hon. Timothy Harris said the Basseterre High School fiasco is one of the many challenges the Team Unity Administration had to confront since going into office.

     

    “We had the difficulty inherited after about two, three years of the Douglas Administration playing the fool with the students, the teachers, the guardians, the parents and the entire national community with respect to the Basseterre High School.”

    Dr. Harris accused the former Prime Minister of labelling teachers of the school as being crazy and reckless, while stating that the Labour Administration at that time was making little of the serious physical and emotional ailments and sufferings of students and their teachers.

    He however informed that his Administration is taking steps to rectify the situation. 

    “I am happy to report that we have re-engaged the St. Kitts Teachers Union and we are in constant contact with them and they with us with respect to this particular matter. And we shall not play a game of hide and seek because they are too critical a partner with respect to this matter which we face.

    “Up to Monday [Jul. 20] when we met in Cabinet we had the honour to receive Mr. Ron Collins; Mr. Govia, the Principle at the Washington Archibald High School; and George Gilbert from the Public Works Department, as we come together to provide an update as to what was happening in the Basseterre High School matter and how we are going to move forward.”

    Prime Minister Harris also reported that the situation at the school is being diligently pursued and the emerging solutions would be shared with the relevant stakeholders.

    “I am happy to report that we have advanced the cause and at an appropriate time the Government and the Ministry of Education, in collaboration with the Teachers Union and the relevant other stakeholders, we will come together to share the solutions which are emerging. But I am comfortable, as the Prime Minister of this country, to report that the Basseterre High School matter is being pursued diligently, responsibly and that a solution acceptable to all parties would in due course be announced.”

    He intoned that the Team Unity Government had not taken the health, welfare and safety of the students and their teachers for granted, and added that “we apologise that the past Administration was not diligent nor caring enough to want the solution to be put in place”.

    The Prime Minister explicated that his Government wants a solution and that they are nearing the end when they could come confidently say, “Having studied the problem, having analysed all the reports, having consulted with the relevant stakeholders, we are all satisfied that this is the best way forward.” 

    As a result in the failure of a number of tests conducted to identify the cause of health issues that affected some students and teachers, late last year an arbitration panel had recommended that the school be off limits.

    Many people, politicians in particular, had claimed that it was an environmental issue, and the students and teachers have since been accommodated at the Washington Archibald High School on a shift system for the second time over a two-year periodl.

     
     
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