Work is progressing well on the restoration of the Colihaut Primary School.
The structure was considerably damaged during Tropical Storm Erika last August and since then students and teachers of this school have been transferred to the Dublanc Primary School.
GIS News spoke with Contractor, Monison Roudette about the progress.
He says work began with the re-fencing of the school compound.
“We have put up the fencing wire and poles and we are doing the concrete in the bottom and barbed wire at the top,” he explained.
The contractor currently has seven men employed on that fencing project after which he will employ a few more to tackle work on the school building.
He listed the windows, doors, floors, electrical, plumbing and yard as needing attention.
“There’s a lot of work to do,” Roudette says.
Earlier this month, the President’s Charities Foundation donated 58 gallons of paint to the Ministry of Education to repaint the Colihaut Primary School.
Come September it is anticipated that students of that community will be back at their school.
Government is spending in excess of $300,000 on this project.
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A school with less than 100 children.More the 100,000 per child. I say to consolidate the nearby schools and provide transportation and use this money for young entrepeurners and a community center.
Would like to correct my own maths. Its 3000.00 per child.
Good news for the community of Colihaut, including parents, students and teachers. Hopefully these renovations will render the school plant “better and stronger” and able to withstand future systems when (not if) they come.
I can safely say to you the the threat is not over for the village of Colihaut. Fencing the school at this time is ill advised. I my opinion there should not even be fencing on the see side. During hurricane David the sea went right around the school and at a time when we are told to expect more frequent and stronger storms is a waste of money. Colihaut does not have a history of vanalism to the school.
On the seaside a rock amour should have been better. Let me tell you people who lack wisdom ,knowledge, understanding and insight of what is going to happen to the people living by the bayside including the colihaut school.
The next storm is going to eat away all that Ericka soil that is by the School and the sea is going to use that sand which will emerge as a platform to wipe out the infrastructure by the bay. We are surppose to be building better. This is not the case of this project. Before the year end we will be shaking oue heads at the wastage.
Building a fence along the riverside and seaside is ill advised. This is because the threat to the village of Colihaut is not over as yet because of the large amount of material in the river bed and due to the fact that some of the landslide areas would not yet have stabilized.
Instead of a fence on these sides of the School I would have used rock amour. Colihaut doesnot have a history of vandalism to the School.
Let me tell the people what is going to happen. You see all that soil that is by the school? The next and future storms are going to eat away this soil, converting it to sand. The sea will then push the sand to the shore and use it as a platform for sea wells and storm surges. This is my rational. During hurricane David the sea surge was passing right around the school. Can you begin to imagine the disaster which is waiting to happen? We try to solve one problem by dredging the river and created an even greater monster.