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Lionel Max Hurst
Plans to build a new school in Barbuda are moving forward.
This is according to Chief of staff in the Prime Minister’s Office Lionel Hurst.
Hurst explained the new school would be erected at the Louie Hill site. A change from the original intentions of rebuilding the Holy Trinity School after being destroyed by Hurricane Irma back in 2017 with funds offered by the Dominican Republic.
“There is a money sitting in the treasury at the moment that is intended for this Barbuda school project. And it will happen. We’re thinking of placing the Barbuda school where the Louis Hill project is going to be built. That way residents who take up quarters in Louis Hill will have easy access for their primary school students to attend a new primary school or an additional school.”, Hurst added.
The Holy Trinity school was refurbished but the funds were raised by the Barbuda Council.
Instead, conceptual plans were submitted for approval for the new school, which the Cabinet subsequently endorsed.
The proposed new location at Louie Hill is slightly elevated and part of a wider development zone that will also house new residences and businesses.
Is this the same land the people of Barbuda was protesting over?
After 8 years still no school
Hmmm. Plans that never make it out the group chat
In the meantime why not take the money sitting in the treasury waiting for a school that might never be built and pay the people that you owe for months that need their money now to pay who they owe?? Lionel I really don’t know how you sleep with your eyes close..it must be horrible in the dark
That’s why lands were being cleared? Will this even happen? Where the government finding this money?
Max when you retire, you need to be knighted for all the false hopes you have given to us as a people