Primary school students appear to be getting their school meals delivered on time again, the Barbados Union of Teachers (BUT) and workers at the School Meals Department (SMD) have reported.The SMD employees said that after weeks of delivering the lunches late because equipment challenges had delayed food preparation, they were able to get meals to students in time for their noon lunch break last week.BUT president Rudy Lovell also confirmed that the union had not received any recent reports of late lunches.The disclosure on Monday came a week and a half after Barbados TODAY reported that faulty equipment, poor working conditions and a shortage of vehicles at the SMD were the main factors contributing to thousands of students getting their lunches up to two hours late.“There were no late lunches for the entire week last week. After the article was published, that same weekend technicians came and worked on the commercial kitchen steam kettles,” said one of the workers.
