RAD­HI­CA DE SIL­VA

Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter Dr Michael Dowlath has pledged to make long-await­ed re­pairs to San Fer­nan­do Cen­tral Sec­ondary School a pri­or­i­ty af­ter the school’s prin­ci­pal re­vealed it has main­tained out­stand­ing aca­d­e­m­ic re­sults de­spite years of in­ad­e­quate fa­cil­i­ties.

Ad­dress­ing the school’s grad­u­a­tion cer­e­mo­ny at the South­ern Acad­e­my for the Per­form­ing Arts on Ju­ly 2, prin­ci­pal Cindy Khan said the school achieved an av­er­age of 86 per cent full cer­tifi­cates at both CSEC and CAPE ex­am­i­na­tions be­tween 2020 and 2025, de­spite stu­dents and teach­ers con­tend­ing with over­crowd­ing, a short­age of spe­cial­ist class­rooms and teacher va­can­cies.