The Board of Man­age­ment of Holy Name Con­vent Port of Spain has an­nounced an in­de­pen­dent in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to cur­rent and past al­le­ga­tions in­volv­ing new­ly ap­point­ed prin­ci­pal Sr Re­nee Hall, fol­low­ing pub­lic con­cern raised by stu­dents, par­ents, alum­ni and mem­bers of the wider school com­mu­ni­ty.

In a state­ment is­sued yes­ter­day, the board ac­knowl­edged the “con­cerns, emo­tions and ex­pe­ri­ences” be­ing shared pub­licly since Hall’s ap­point­ment and said the mat­ter was deeply per­son­al for many con­nect­ed to the in­sti­tu­tion.

The board said the well­be­ing, dig­ni­ty and de­vel­op­ment of stu­dents re­main cen­tral to the mis­sion and val­ues of the school and the Do­mini­can Sis­ters of St Cather­ine of Siena.