Profound sorrow

DEEP sorrow and grief shrouded Wolmer’s Boys’ School on Monday after a fourth-form student collapsed in class and died.

“I don’t think we’ve ever had such a situation; meaning, it’s typical for us to have students fall ill, we take them for medical attention, and we see them back in school. It’s the first that we’re having an experience where a student has been taken for medical attention and will not be back with us,” Principal Dwight Pennycooke told journalists at the school in the Corporate Area.

The principal said he was unable to give a detailed account of the school’s initial reaction to the incident, as, after receiving the call from the school nurse informing him of the situation, he had been at Medical Associates Hospital where the student was rushed.