Police increase presence at ESHS after reported ‘disturbance’
Police presence has been increased at the Elmore Stoutt High School (ESHS) in Pasea Estate in light of what is being described as a ‘disturbance’ at the facility Monday morning.
“Police were called to assist and deployed a number of officers to restore calm. These officers are working with the security and will remain on campus until all immediate risks to students are eliminated,” police said in a statement Monday afternoon.
While police did not describe the extent of the ‘disturbance’, highly-placed sources at the school told BVI News that an unknown intruder had visited the campus.
The intruder’s reason to be at the school is not known but his visited reportedly caused some anxiety among students in particular.
A number of parents reportedly pulled their children from school on Monday after reports of the intrusion, BVI News was told.
When our news centre visited the campus at the end of the school’s morning shift session, police — inclusive of those from the Armed Response Unit — were still visible at the facility. Notwithstanding, some semblance of normalcy seemed to have returned on the campus.
And in a subsequent media release from the Ministry of Education, Chief Education Officer in the Ministry of Education and Culture Connie George said, “contrary to earlier reports that there was a ‘lockdown’ at the ESHS, regular classes are continuing at the school”.
These reports follow a fatal shooting in Huntums Ghut on Sunday night.
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This is disturbing…imagine our citizens are not safe driving or walking the streets and now our children are not safe at school
It is truly sad when any School have to go on lock down. We go through it all the time.
Well is the same rude children live at home with their ever loving children that they dont correct
Learn to read over before you post!!
What the h**l is going on
No one save in the bvi
safe not save
See what “leh we do dis ting” caused now? “Dah mek sense”?
BVI is not the only place that has and use a cultural dialect. No need to act so offended. No need to take shots at our local leaders, even if you are not one of us, from a different country.
I wonder if baldhead gonna build a wall around CTL building before election, like what he did last time?
You so stupid but wall
Things happens anyplace anywhere any country.
Am so angry how r u have all r u rude picnie n cant correct them n like r u want wonder what ball goin do r u need to bill a wall around r u picnie dem mouth but r u fraid them
You so stupid but wall
It can happen anyplace anywhere any country.