Minister of Education, Dr. Michael Dowlath, has commended Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar for launching the largest July/August School Repair Programme in the country’s history under her leadership.
He was speaking at the closing ceremony for the JAVA Cricket Programme on Wednesday.
“So I want to congratulate our Prime Minister on her directive. Prime Minister, we have had the largest July/August School Repair Programme in the history of Trinidad and Tobago. We started with 279 schools and, in addition,169 emergency works. So, Prime Minister, it came up to 395 projects over the July/August.”
Dr. Dowlath also reassured students and parents that they can look forward to receiving their laptops in the new school term.
“I want to say that beginning at the end of September, the first phase of the rollout of 18,000 laptops for our new Form 1 students will begin.”