Urgent meeting called after fire guts Canaan Presbyterian classrooms

Hours af­ter a fire razed a class­room block, dis­plac­ing pupils of Canaan Pres­by­ter­ian School, Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Dr Michael Dowlath said an ur­gent meet­ing had been con­vened to dis­cuss the way for­ward.

Dowlath said the meet­ing, sched­uled for to­day, would bring to­geth­er rep­re­sen­ta­tives of School Su­per­vi­sion, the Ed­u­ca­tion Fa­cil­i­ties Plan­ning and Projects Di­vi­sion (EF­P­PD), the Pres­by­ter­ian Pri­ma­ry Schools' Board of Ed­u­ca­tion, the school's prin­ci­pal and the Trinidad and To­ba­go Elec­tric­i­ty Com­mis­sion (T&TEC).

“In­for­ma­tion will be shared about the way for­ward,” Dowlath said.