Protest looms at NECS

The North East Comprehensive School

While students around the country are preparing to head back to the classrooms next week students of the North east Comprehensive school (NECS) may just be in for an extended summer break.

That’s because parents of students of the NECS are considering protest action after claims that the Ministry of Education failed to address a major problem at the school.

Since November 2011 the Ministry of Education made several promises to undertake repair works at the institution the parents say but to date, no significant work has been done.

Just last week Education Minister Peter St Jean told Dominica News Online that windows had been ordered from a Barbados company and assured those concerned that repairs would commence before the start of the new school year.

However, with a few days left before school reopens parents are beginning to react, claiming that the situation at the school has actually worsened.

“I went to the school on Monday to make my eyes boil my peas and what I saw there is unbelievable, I saw those classrooms like swimming pools, windows hanging, windows down on the ground as if it was an abandoned school,” one disgruntled parent told Dominica News Online. “This is very rough and I don’t think I will be sending my kids to school next week, not under these conditions, how can children even learn in that environment, the wing linking the classrooms to the staffroom is still uncovered.”

Meanwhile Dominica News Online understands that education officials have called an emergency meeting at the school to discuss the way forward for NECS.

All attempts to get a response from education officials on the matter proved futile.

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79 Comments

  1. yeah
    August 29, 2012

    Shame on gloria thats her concituncy and she doing nothing about it, is time for the people to face her and let her know enough is enough

    • princess Osanna
      August 29, 2012

      Dominicans need to vote smarter.Stop voting for people who cannot represent you. These people just go there for a job to make some money. They are no diffferent from those who go to teach just for the money. Be smart. vote for a person who can stand up and give you proper representation

  2. August 29, 2012

    In this situation i think i am very fortunate not to have one of my kids in that high school, first of all it has never been done the way it was meant to be and i really think it’s not very conducive to learning, nevertheless, i have a number of nieces and nephews, cousins and friends who attend that school. so at this opportune time i am calling on the minister of so-call education please step up and do something cause, this will result in a chaotic move by the students/parents.

  3. Da2debone
    August 29, 2012

    I am heartbroken and lost for words. The structure was left abandoned for years and now everyone wants to blame the students. My daughter will be entering NECS for the first time and though i am not there to see the school building i have been reading on DNO for some time now that repairs will be done. My question then is WHEN? but again is the NORTHEAST governments always has turned a blind eyes to us. I graudated 18yrs ago from ST ANDREW’S HIGH SCHOOL and we had to raise funds when we wanted things dome yet they use to take from our funds for Wesley High School since both were being managed by the Methodist Church. We always seems to get the shitty end of the stick. To our present parl rep former teacher and headmistress of STAHS please we need you now more that now just days and weeks before election. The children of the NORTH East especially Wesley and Woodfordhill need your help
    now.

  4. Francisco Telemaque
    August 29, 2012

    ” When the Trinidadian company Plumbers and Ass. pulled out of the construction, ”

    We need to make it abundantly clear, and state it as it happened!

    The construction workers and builders did not simply get up one day and decide to walk off the job; one will remember that the School in question was part of the project which included the International Airport.

    After the UWP lost the election, and the coalition labor party, and company siege power, they decided to chase the Trinidad Contractors out of the country!

    Remember during their campaign they vow to dismantle anything which the UWP had accomplished, and that includes abandoning the construction of the International Airport which was supposed to be in its early stages of development.

    When the School the same one in such a dilapidated state was designed, they designed to accommodate a sixth-form collage, one of my friend Athie’s function, his first orders to the contractors was ” get rid of the sixth-form collage, because ” we already have one in Roseau.”

    Could it be because the School in Wesley came through the Edison James and the UWP, administration the Labor Party has willfully, and deliberately allow the building to deteriorate to such an extent simply to gain political mileage, by blaming the UWP shabby and unprofessional construction work?

    I do not know, that’s my insinuation!

    Remember, they created the idea that the cost of the airport was too expensive, and on a whole Dominica does not need an International Airport, all we need was to refurbish Melville Hall Airport, install landing lights, dig up the river bed; turn it into a parking lot and Dominica would become the most prosperous nation in the Caribbean.

    Since eighty (80%) percent of the money which was to be spent on the construction of the airport and Secondary School came from the peoples treasury of Trinidad & Tobago, the arrangment was that technical skills which we do not have in Dominica relating to the buliding of such projects would come from Triniudad & Tobago.

    We cannot deny that the Chines utilize the same practice in Dominica at the moment; nonetheless, the workers from Trinidad did not simply up and leave, they were kicked out by the Government which decided they did not want an International Airport built in Dominica, as the idea and development came from a UWP vision!

    It is not the first time in our history a government foolishly broke down what another government started.

    People go into the Chines Stadium, with grins on their faces, very few remember that the French government (the government of France) had already given Dominica a Stadium.

    Remember Patrick John quest for a large cricket match in Dominica, the man visualized Test Cricket in the country long before it happened, had Euglena Charles not tired to erase Patrick John from our citizens memory, and history. The French stadium would long be in operation, and the financing the Chines have recently spent on their stadium could have been spent on something else which could have taken the country a step forward.

    The stupid political mentality in our country is simply this, if it is not my idea, or that of my friends or political clones it must not allow to stand, one will not be surprise that if the Skerrit government loses the next election, the next person to be Prime Minister will decide to tear down the Chines built stadium, dig up all the roads they repair, break down the state house and all since that is the trend and way we operate in our country.

    Truth must be know, the Trinidad workers did not simply up and leave Pirie Charles Athie Martin, the late Rosie Douglas, Ian Douglas, my whipping boy they are the ones who kicked out the Trinidad workers, and abandoned the International Airport, in favor for what is in operation at Melville in the year 2012.

    How much more backward shall we go?

    Francisco Etienne-Dods Telemaque

  5. Due
    August 29, 2012

    The school was never completed. When the Trinidadian company Plumbers and Ass. pulled out of the construction, the building was left unattended for some three years before STEWCO was given a contract to complete the structure. When STEWCO began work a meeting was held with ministry of education officials including, Minister Vince Henderson, P.S Lafonde among others. At that meeting it was agreed that the windows and doors would be changed. That was over seven years ago.

    Please understand that that the damage of the windows occurred during the years the school was left in limbo.

    In terms of students and parents assisting the school, this is ongoing. Some of the monies for covering the skylight in the skylight in the auditorium was raised by the P.T.A.

  6. Anonymous
    August 29, 2012

    When I went to primary school in Massacre a few years ago, every summer before the new term started staff, students and parents would come together and help to clean up the classrooms and do what repairs need to be made. We realized back then that you cant always leave things up to the government, it was our school and we took pride in making conditions right for learning. But we have obviously lost all sense of community, and make everything about the government. Sad that the students’ education has to suffer as a result.

    • August 29, 2012

      In a government school, the government have to step up, yes parents, students and teachers can clean but when it come sto repairs and major work it is the government job.

  7. Anonymous
    August 29, 2012

    Allu. Siting in Roseau on Golden Toilet. And want to comment on DNO likr allu attend NEC when non of You all did why allu don’t just Listen ,you actually think our parents will be making an ### of themselves by pushing for Protest knowing that their Children have hands in it that school like that since 2007 and B4 and no matter how much action that has being taken for Maintainance not much is ever actually done I am a First Graduate of that School and we had that situation and we were told it would have being dealt with since then,the schools multiplicity of issues Continue Probably Government will wake up when the Methodist Church Take them to court For the Use of the name St Andrews High School in Conducting Business with CXC and other known agencies — that is pure Bowdelle if you ask me Government need to stop playing politics and wake up and Complete the unfinished complex once and for all. As for allu that on Golden Toilets melt them and pass it on maybe is the $$$ that gov need cause they don’t worth the crap that Goes into them

  8. August 29, 2012

    Goverment should take better steps to finish this ambiguity among peoples.

  9. marigot
    August 28, 2012

    then mr.minister of education you all ask where is dominica heading ….UR BODIES NEXT LEVEL IS THE DOWN LEVEL …and dominica is already down

  10. Looking in
    August 28, 2012

    Was this school ever completed?

  11. Dominicanpearl2
    August 28, 2012

    Let’s put politics aside and please fix the schools so the children can get an education. While we a pointing fingers the children will suffer and the island will not move forward. I say let the parents of the children who vandalized or destroyed the school pay for it. If they have no money, let the children work with the contractors and fix it. I am not advocating cruelty but we have to teach the children a lesson to respect public and private property. Man we are just playing, what about the innocent children who just come to school and study their work? should they suffer too? I am not from that area but I consider each Dominican child precious. People, do we realize the importance of education? Moi vleut pleurer. Alas, Dominique.

    • NatureIsleEmpress
      August 29, 2012

      How can you ask the students to repair a damage they ‘made’ when the school was never finish? Seriously? So are you saying it is the responsibility of the students and parents to finish building this school? If you have an incomplete porject after a few years what do you think willhappen? It will fall apart!

      • Anonymous
        August 30, 2012

        I do not live in DA so I did not know that the project was incomplete. I commented based on the report by DNO. Thanks for the clarifiction NatueIsleEmpress. I was a teacher and I am still passionate about education.

      • Dominicanpearl2
        August 30, 2012

        I do not live in DA so I did not know that the project was incomplete. I commented based on the report by DNO. Thanks for the clarifiction NatueIsleEmpress. I was a teacher and I am still passionate about education.

    • August 29, 2012

      the students did not vandalize the school. the school was left open to the perils of the society and nature for three years. Get ur facts correct

  12. Anonymous
    August 28, 2012

    Was this school ever completed?

  13. ever
    August 28, 2012

    sorry for the missing letters

  14. ever
    August 28, 2012

    positive vibess befo giving o the gouvement please go to the school ad ask the childen to respect the school materials ad i think it will be bette fo all of us when they brake it the moey spend to fix it will be used for somethig else

  15. August 28, 2012

    too much talking in dominica time for action.Time to approach the ministers face to face and deal with then enough is enough.

  16. teacher
    August 28, 2012

    Please students come to school i need my salary at the end of the month. Am dead broke did not receive a cent since June month end.

  17. SCROOGE
    August 28, 2012

    somebody tell me parents school shuts down who looses

  18. Pedro
    August 28, 2012

    The children of Dominica are NOT the priority of this Government. Their goal is to eat all they can till the cow is dead.

  19. AP
    August 28, 2012

    The real problem is that we have a beggarman mentality from the government on down. Everybody has a hand out to get a handout! It’s instilled in the Dominican psyche. So when countries give us beggarman aid, we only get aid to build the item, no forethought on funds to maintain these developments after they’ve been in use. So, there is no wonder that time and time again, there is no money in the budget to repair items like this school. It’s a shame, but what Dominica needs is to be more productive, and stop begging. These problems will persist if we do not teach our people to be ‘fishermen’. If you teach a man to fish he will never be hungry or go without! And we can truly be the bread basket of the Caribbean! We have vast natural resources (bananas, coconuts, other fruits/nuts, water, rock/aggregate/pumice, some timber for fine furniture, etc etc.) If Dominicans will not work, import labor, give them incentives and let them build industries!

    On another note, the vandals are not nature or natural disasters, they they folks in that very community… students, vagrants and literally people who need to be jailed for these domestic terrorist acts.

  20. new york
    August 28, 2012

    isn’t the school pravite ???????? can somebody tell me yes or no?

  21. Akua
    August 28, 2012

    Are you all serious? The students destroyed the school windows so they and their parents should fix it? I really wish the Gov’t would provide that as their response! With that line of thinking, they gov’t would be absolved of all responsibility to maintain anything. There is a reason why we seek to educate children, so if they have not learned from their educators how to respect public property then we have a greater problem on our hands than just these windows. The behaviors these students learn at school will only be magnified as they merge into adulthood. Today the school windows…tomorrow yours!

    We can waste time squabbling about who’s the best minister/parent/teacher while our children run amok. OR, we can accept our imperfections, demand accountability across the board and finally get something done!

  22. phucet
    August 28, 2012

    The ministers protect there investment, but the government dont protect there investment.

  23. August 28, 2012

    a very speaker with no action. Let just put all those BIG word down and get to work. TELL THEM I SAY STOP FOOLING THE PEOPLE GET TO WORK

  24. youth
    August 28, 2012

    Consider !!!!! $8,000,000.00 for LIAT from our Govt. No repairs to NECS for re-opening of school.

    $90,000.00 duty free for Finity luxury car to girlfriend. No repairs to NECS.

    Passports selling, diplomatic ones at that. Plenty, plenty $$$$$$$$ paid to whoever, but no repairs to NECS.

    Quick enrichment, assets for so, not in sync with salary, but no repairs to NECS.

    President’s salary increased recently. Paid trip, plus perks, for President and wife to enjoy Olympics in UK, but no repairs to NECS.

    Economy, they said, is doing good and better than most countries in the region, yet no repairs to NECS.

    Their priority is not about the development of our youth, but how quickly, by any means possible, they could enrich themselves. The examples are plain to see. The evidence, the truthful revelations are irrefutable.

  25. Morihei Ueshiba
    August 28, 2012

    You people need to understand how things work in Dominica. If it is something bad or 100% incompetence displayed, the people too blame, if it is something good like a new road or new school chinese build the Govt responsible. :lol: :lol: :lol:
    All things bad the people, all things good the Govt.
    Only in Dominica dem fellas can get away with those crimes.

  26. Mangoes
    August 28, 2012

    my view is that the complete Regime sucks to the core, so you must attest that the education layout is rotten as well…..

    do you education officials really care, or they much eagerly awaiting their pay check at month end

    i didn’t agree to Parry’s claim about the service levels in the sector but its always wise to revisit his claims points directly to some incompetence head on—regime/education dept.

  27. Country Man
    August 28, 2012

    I am confused – how can it be said that the students are the ones responsible for destroying the school. Were they the ones corroding the hinges and the screws that caused the windows to fall?

  28. windy hill
    August 28, 2012

    But their Present Parl Rep was a so called former Educator, where is her interest?

    Even is she plans on brings outdated gifts and bling just before the upcoming Gen election, the voters of Wesley & Woodfordhill should make her feel the Pain At the Polls, that’s how you get rid of unwanted Parl Reps……….Voters in that Constituency Please take Note of the advice!

  29. 5th Ave
    August 28, 2012

    They Should take massive Protest Action

    That’s how things get solved in a lack lustre Island Like Dominica

    Dominica is a island where many are considered Sleepers and Highly Dazed with Ignorance.

    Sad thing to compound affairs is that it causes Their dull Regime to infest more Foolish Poverty Gaining numbers to its List, with embracing Shouts Of Glorifying its Citizens to be Poor is Great.

    Dominica is a Special Case Need island!

  30. awa
    August 28, 2012

    This is one of the newest schools on the island I can’t believe it can be in such a state. Don’t blame the minister blame the ones who mishandle other peoples property.

  31. Rule
    August 28, 2012

    @Positive vibes. That’s what happens when the blind leads the blind, so everyone is directionally challenged and no one wants to admit that. The Gov’t is deceptive in all their promises but, they still love their PM.

    • Positive vibes
      August 29, 2012

      I KNOW RIGHT.DOMINICANS TEND TO BE SO FOOLISH

  32. Boetica
    August 28, 2012

    Petter St Jean is the worst Minister of Education Ever

    • d paro 1
      August 28, 2012

      DEFINATELY. This man is too DUMB to be in a ministerial position!

    • Anonymous
      August 28, 2012

      oh shut up!these kids need to learn responsibility.

    • August 29, 2012

      I agree with u pal

  33. hmmm
    August 28, 2012

    Its very true that work needs to be done at the school. But WOW these kids do not take care of the property!! that’s a shame! how old is this school for such damage to be done!? jeez

    • B.E.B
      August 28, 2012

      Is’nt recently that school was built? I cant understand this Are the students causing vandalizen to the school or was the school badly built? Just asking

    • Anonymous
      August 28, 2012

      these windows have been up long before the school opened in 2007 hence the result they are bad now ……they were already bad when the school open

    • Country Man
      August 28, 2012

      Given the weather conditions and the environment (salt spray/mist from ocean) how can you suggest that the kids take care of the school? Are they suppose to replace the hinges on the windows? We know for are fact that in DA we don’t budget for operation and maintenance and the state of the NECS is a result of that – simple.

    • 1979
      August 28, 2012

      nice!!!!!!! LET’S BLAME THE KIDS! I pity yours if you have.. what do u say to them?? daddy left because of them?

    • Young
      August 28, 2012

      let me tell you: this school was opened when I entered high school — I am now preparing to commence my 2nd year of college…the parents should take off their belts and beat their children for being irresponsible and malicious to school property…smh. Buildings of CHS and SMA standing all these years and no parents are outside the Bishop’s office protesting…give me a break…

  34. past student
    August 28, 2012

    when i first started necs i can remember i was sitting in the classroom listening to the teacher teach and and all of a sudden the windows started falling off , and im done wit school for 2 yrs now and i know plenty more fall out . i can remember when rain use to fall everybody use to gather in one corner just for us not to wet can u believe that. and yet still government has nt help improve on the conditions of the school its a shame..anyways i still thank god i walked out the doors of necs with 7 subjects never the less of the situation. something needs to be done !

  35. steve
    August 28, 2012

    The Country is going bankrupt and the People of Dominica are not seeing it. Our Schools. Hospitals, and roads are in terrible conditions. Now the trend in Dominica is the citizens are buying cement to fix the pot holes in the streets. I am not playing party politics but i am simply observing the way this administration abandoned the country.

  36. Student
    August 28, 2012

    I really do not understand what is happening with our Education Officials.

    I share the concerns with the parents of the NECS.

    A promise was made to commence work at the Newtown Primary School after the construction of a retaining wall at the said school. The wall has been constructed…. where is the school?

    It was said during the budget address that work would commence in August 2012. Now I am hearing that the same Chinese Contractors building the Dominica State College are the ones who are supposed to build the Newtown Primary School.

    Please somebody, tell me when will that be. All is not well at the school, we are in the hurricane season and when it rains teacher has to open umbrella in the classroom. Don’t talk about the level of dust when there’s no rain and poor lighting facility.

    If somebody cannot give answers soon, then the next school to be shut down will be the Newtown Primary School.

  37. Shameless
    August 28, 2012

    All part of the NEXT LEVEL! :lol: :lol: :lol: What is the ministry keeping a meeting for? To decide when is the next meeting? Oh brother, brother, brother……LAYBAR POWERrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr..

    Assertive, NOT Agressive!

    • El Presidente
      August 28, 2012

      They need to repair the school immediately, but this school has been in the news forever….always something happening in this school.

      I think they should cameras around the school to see why the schools is always bein damaged.

      • It was never fixed
        August 28, 2012

        It was never fixed. What part of that don’t you understand. Nothing is meant to last forever. The school stood there unfinished for many years subjected to the elements before completion. To say the school is only 7 years old is an understatement. When the shoe is on the other foot then we will feel the pain.

      • Nkrumah Kwame
        August 29, 2012

        This is because the materials used in the construction phase was of INFERIOR QUALITY and the population of Martigot has to be PUNISHED for being Marigotians!! What other reason/argument could be forwarded as explanation for the dilapidated condition over so long a period? And what are the PR of the villages of Marigot, Wesley, Woodfordhill and Calibishie doing/saying?
        Woe unto the country whose citizens are sooo laid back that they love the govt. more than their own offspring!

  38. Met Yo
    August 28, 2012

    All that is good.

  39. Ringo
    August 28, 2012

    What ever happened to voluntary groups?. The energy the parents and students intend to use to protest, they should come together and help with the repairs. Its the students who’ve destroyed the windows on the building anyway. Sometimes we have to be proactive and stop waiting on the Government to do everything. I see why productivity will move nowhere on this island.

    • Keeping hem Honest
      August 28, 2012

      This is an example of why productivity will not move on this land Ringo???? Really? There is no other example that you could muster?

      • Ringo
        August 28, 2012

        With Petty minded people like you Keeping em Honest, Dominica will not progress. Making a fuss out of nothing at all.

    • Country Man
      August 28, 2012

      The students caused the corrosion on the hinges that made them fail – right! Why comment when you don’t have the facts. The corrosion is caused by the environment – the high salt spray from teh ocean.

    • 1979
      August 28, 2012

      yes people need to be PROACTIVE, but the administration needs to be PROACTIVE AS WELL. and we could also say reactive because SOOOOOOO LOOONG this has been in the news…. where is the REACTION by those responsible….when we can’t find a damned excuse we love to assume the position of “VICTIM” but who is really suffering in this situation….

      THE KIDS!! with NO MONEY, NO POWER, NO INFLUENCE at their disposal they are the one’s loosing out.. yet those who can do something to alleviate, or at least help the situation playing the blame game…failing to realize the need for their urgent attention.

    • citizen
      August 28, 2012

      i second your point. We too like to wait on people to do things for us. These are the same students who destroy the buildings and parents refuse to pay for the damages and now they protesting. We need to make the children take responsiblity for their actions. the children and parents NEED to be held ACCOUNTABLE for the damage they do to school property. These are the same children and parents who get vouchers for books, uniforms and free bus yet they damage the school. I know because I teach at a school and it is amazing to see the malicious damage the children do to the school buildings, furnitures and equipments.

  40. Not a herd follower
    August 28, 2012

    Petter St.Jean…worse Minister of Education ever?

    • Positive vibes
      August 28, 2012

      I’M TELLING U!.THE WORST EVER

    • FAIRNESS!!
      August 28, 2012

      Tell me, who destroyed the schhol? isn’t it the students? Target the students first.

      • uh huh
        August 28, 2012

        the windows of the school was falling apart before the school even opened. i was one of the first generation of students from that school and when rain would fall we would have to move our desks and chairs because we were getting wet. the windows were cheap and dry rotted before a stong wind blows it fall apart, much less after the weather we have been having. get real, if the windows were of good quality in the first place they wouldn’t have deteriorated so quickly.

      • ideal
        August 28, 2012

        but even if the students damage the school its the duty of the govt. to repair if.are they waitng for an accident to happen before this is done, am sure they are fixing other schools, we need to consentrate on the young minds in that school, they are the future of DA..I agree with the parents, education and safty go hand in hand..PLEASE FIX THE SCHOOL

      • Yea i said it
        August 29, 2012

        True!!!!!!!!!! Children like to vandalize, destroying the doors,windows,toilets,the schools as if they parents paying for it on the little school fee some of them does pay and expect the ministers to burst their heads to fix it….and them parents worst than them….i always shake my head wen i see my own fellow classmates destroying something we suppose to be taking care of….we need to do better

      • Eyes wide open
        August 29, 2012

        Yes, but the schools are supposed to be maintained on a regular basis. If that was being done in the first place, the situation would not have reached how it is now. Look at the Grammar School, they built a news school and forgot about it, the grounds of Grammar School looking like a badly kept farm. I just find, that since this government took over; the education ministry has just gone down, so has agriculture. They are placing focus on the wrong things.

    • OMG
      August 28, 2012

      hmmmmm..i concur.. :oops:

  41. Anonymous
    August 28, 2012

    Lets be realistic for once, who damaged the windows? The students of the parents that are complaining the most! Parents please talk to your kids before skl reopens on Monday! Tell them don”t damage more… ya”ll are pissed and it’s ur kids who is damaging it…. its not the teachers nor mr st jean…. so bear patience for now…. thanks much!

    • Keeping hem Honest
      August 28, 2012

      The students parents that are complaining the most are the ones who distroy the windows…and you’re trying to say that with authority or you’re are just placing blame yourself. Regardless Anonymous government biuldings should have repair budgets and when a facility needs maintaining then maintainance should be performed. The same goes for our feeder roads and the like. Be suppotive in the right direction regardless of your political affiliation.

    • El Presidente
      August 28, 2012

      They need to repair the school, but this school has been in the news forever….always something happening in this school.

      I think they should cameras around the school to see why the schools is always bein damaged.

    • Back N neck
      August 28, 2012

      so when the big trucks damage the roadway the truck drivers have to pay for the repair themselves uh. Instead of holding people accountable for their responsibilities we find all kind of petty excuses just to defend a political party. What **** is wrong with our people – Red, Blue or Green. Are you people serious. It is no wonder why politicians treat Dominicans like idiots. How can we progress when people accept sub standard performances from the authorities of government and even authorities in opposition. How can we tolerate such neglect for our kids education while we are building a a 27 million dollar mansion for the president or we can spend 20 million dollars in one month on election campaign. If we dont stand for something we fall as a unit for anything.

      What a shame for Dominica. When farmers complain about feeder roads laborites claim farmers should fix the road themselves; truck drivers cry foul laborites say truck drivers are to greedy; Civil servants call for pay increases laborites and Parry say civil servants are lazy; public works ask for jobsn laborites say public work department is worthless.Dominicans calling for work on capital projects – dominicans are too lazy let the chinese do the job. Farmers calling for market opportunities the farmers are too lazy. What is wrong with these people- is it ignorance, stupidity or just dependency. Whatever it is it is so wrong.

      Mamizoo is no friend or suck up to any politician. I simply call it as I see it whether I am calling out red ,Blue or Green party. against wrong for .

  42. past student
    August 28, 2012

    this renovation should have started as soon as school closed, now the students are going to be left behind with their school work while other schools are moving forward. The windows did not mash up by themselves past students before helped in destroying the windows by removing them to beat or help fight other students which they had issue with and now peter is paying for paul….so sad

  43. Positive vibes
    August 28, 2012

    Yessah.once again the GOVERNMENT OF DOMINICA has FAILED aGAIN.how much longer will the blind dominicans not see that the government isn’t doing us any good.alas…right now the fifth formers are goin to be behind in their syallabuses.shame .shame.shame….

    • FAIRNESS!!
      August 28, 2012

      They are the ones who destroyed the windows.

    • Anonymous
      August 28, 2012

      Go under a tree!!!!!

      • Positive vibes
        August 29, 2012

        LOL…I LIKE THAT :-?

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