Schools ready for new academic year but poor roads a problem

MOUNT HANNAH, Hanover — While several schools in Hanover Western are well advanced in their preparations for the new academic year following the passage of Hurricane Melissa last October, extremely poor roads remain a major concern for at least one administrator.

“The road conditions are horrible. When I say horrible, horrible. The road conditions are so bad to the point where the… resources that the Government sends to the school by contracting couriers, they don’t even want to come,” Mount Hannah Primary School Principal Nicholas James complained to the Jamaica Observer.

​James recounted a recent dispute with a truck driver contracted by the Ministry of Education to deliver desks and chairs to his school, noting that the driver refused to complete the journey.