No national plan in place to manage school maintenance
Education Minister Sharie de Castro has revealed that the BVI does not currently have a national maintenance plan in place for schools in the territory.
The issue of the maintenance of schools has been brought to the forefront recently after the minister announced at the end of the last school term that students could no longer use the Althea Scatliffe Primary School (ASPS) building in its current state.
A structural analysis of the school conducted in June of this year found that the building was unsafe for occupancy due to issues of structural integrity and it was recommended that the use of the building be suspended immediately.
However, de Castro said a position was recently filled for a maintenance manager within the Education Ministry which should help address the situation. “When he came on board, he began to strategise with his team, and actually come up with a strategy for the schools, so the ministry properly deals with maintenance of schools,” de Castro said.
She explained that while the ministry currently has funding allocated for maintenance, it will need to seek additional funding to execute its long-term programme for maintenance to ensure every school gets proper attention in future.
She further explained that although the Education Ministry’s approach has been largely responsive in the past, it has now created a plan to allow it to be more proactive in addressing any needs that arise.
The ministry, de Castro further explained, also needs to devise a plan that involves engaging the private sector as a stakeholder to develop a workable approach.
“When we understand what education does for our community, I believe it’s an opportunity for us to have partnership, and I’m grateful for those partners who have stepped up, and I believe there’s opportunity for more,“ the minister stated.
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Do you need a national plan to maintain schools or do you need a maintenance plan? You need an ongoing audit of each school and the issues and you address them based on urgency and cash flow. The reality is that since the VIP got in office no maintenance continuation work was done on schools. The then minister now Premier had no plan for anything. Nothing! It was a free for all with no direction whatsoever. He was hardly ever at work and when he came it made no difference. Do we now have child for a minister who knows nothing? Leadership is the problem!
since 2003 the school stop being maintenance
what U expected from a BIG-youth he was picked after their master tried all AH THEM , his lack of of the ability to execute without being shown , shows that he would of been coached by the ( coach ), well the coach ain’t here , so trying AH TING ?
National plan or Department of Education maintenance plan. This all you and your ministry.
LOL there are no plans in the BVI to maintain anything!!!
All I hear from the minister is We don’t have this we don’t have that. You know it is not there well put it in place. You have a help of employees in the ministry who don’t know their head from the tail. Put them to work. Come to the public when you putting ideas out otherwise don’t come.
why you all bashing the young lady so when you all was voting for her you all didn’t know she was young
Is there anything the BVI Govnerment can do right? Seems like a group of toddlers is running the BVI for the last 40 years – cannot even wipe their own bottoms
You are so correct with this one!!! No maintenance for f’ing anything in this Territory! This is for both political parties.
If someone can explain to me in detail why the f**k we voted for this young lady I would greatly appreciate it!
More like bamboozled maybe, a spell was cast maybe, maybe that’s why she got the vote.
There are people from here running business very well of all different types. Private. The gov though, somehow is allowed by civic leaders to be the most inept incapable no adult stage professionalism and protocol. Why the fk no one have respect for how their country run? Only make sense if they same folk printing money off gov games. Why else would all dem folk be happy w their huge hill house and a population of educations 1/2 that of UK level on average? They sick? We all sick? This society doesn’t respect itself or it’s neighbors. It needs a heavy dose of teaching self worth and honor. No one is awake at the wheel. Mv and folk like that just count their money and laugh while their ancestral society shoots itself in the foot and becomes known for graft and general rudeness to the world? Cause he and other scum talking bahn here all banked up and offshore house in USA and Bahamas pr. Stole u money. Land of idiots let ppls keep Robbin them. Same set too.
The headline should read “There are no maintenance plans in the BVIs”. Look around: bad roads, garbage incinerator that has never worked properly, BVIEC unreliability, poor water supply, broken down heavy equipment, etc.
Stop telling lies. Those schools were being regular maintained when Walwyn was education minister. Maintenance is on going. The hurricane caused some damage but there was very little maintenance from 2019 until now. We must learn to tell the truth or shut up when we don’t know the facts. I worked in the system so I know what I saw
It is time all school be subject to mandatory inspection before reopening.
It is time all schools be subject to mandatory inspections before reopening.
What is your solution, Honourable Minister? I didn’t elect you to only find out the problems but also to bring solutions. So disappointed! My son had too many solutions I guess?