The ministry of health says it’s fully supportive of the full re-opening of schools, especially as the COVID situation has been brought to a respectable level of control.
Schools were engaged in full force at their reopening Monday this week, after the Easter holidays, a far cry from the COVID staggered day-in/day-out and physical-distancing protocol operations.
It could well be said that school has returned to a state of normalcy.
Well, while it’s been directed for the full reopening of schools yesterday, some schools are challenged with construction work still undertaken in the buildings and students would have to wait when all is clear.
Education Minister, Emmalin Pierre, while welcoming the full reopening, explained that there have been challenges that the Ministry had to contend with.
The Education Minister pointed out that the major area of challenge concerns the current industrial situation with the Grenada Union of Teachers and their quarrel for an agreed-upon 4% increase, which the Government noted it was difficult to pay at this time of the COVID crisis and declining revenues.
However, Pierre says the Ministry of Education had to cope with the challenges and has been working day and night in doing so.
