Leader of the Opposition Dr Peter Phillips says he supports the reopening of schools for students to prepare for upcoming external regional examinations.
“I want to urge the responsible authorities to get with the programme, and get with it quickly so that the students and the schools can be prepared for September and what’s going to happen,” he added.
Phillips is calling for more sanitisation activities across schools as well as counselling services for students amid fears brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.
It won’t need $46 million like Ocho Rios, but certainly, there is need for more in the schools,” the opposition leader said, referring to the controversy over the St Ann Municipal Corporation spending millions to clean sections of the north coast resort town.
“The students seem apprehensive, some less so than some, but overall, we must understand that it hasn’t been easy for them,” the opposition leader continued.
