Moonilal joins protesting parents, students: Complete school in honour of Max

MP for Oropouche East Dr Roodal Moonilal yesterday joined with the Parent Teachers Association (PTA) of the Debe school, renamed in his honour, to call on Government to complete construction of the building.

The completion of the Dr Roodal Moonilal Ramai Trace Sanatan Dharma Maha Sabha Primary School should be done in honour of the late former president George Maxwell Richards.

“I make this call to complete the Ramai Trace Hindu School in his honour and to celebrate his life and commitment to children and for the education of young people,” Moonilal said.

“The school is 95 per cent completed. They could have opened the school or at least partially open the school.” Moonilal said Richards dedicated his life to education and for the upliftment of young people. He died of a heart attack last week Monday. PTA members and students of the school staged a placard demonstration at Ramai Trace junction at the SS Erin Road, Debe, yesterday.

The protestors said that since March 2015, students had been relocated to the Hanuman Milan Mandir at the Penal Rock Road, Penal to facilitate construction.

The mandir is overcrowded and does not have proper facilities for the students, they said.

PTA trustee Rishi Babwah said that despite numerous protests for classes to resume for the 271 students at the original location, all cries have fallen on deaf ears.

“We have no confirmation that government is going to complete the school. Its unacceptable that we have a school 90 per cent completed and Government refuses to complete the ten per cent. Last year March we protested in front of Parliament,” Babwah said. He said during that protest, Minister in the Education Ministry Dr Lovell Francis said the school would be completed by last September.

“To date, it is talk, talk and nothing is happening at all. The next step for us is to keep lobbying the government to get the school completed. We don’t know what else to do.

We wrote the Education Minister, the Prime Minister, and they are just acknowledging receipt,” Babwah said.