The Yarrowkabra Secondary School which will be a new addition to the Soesdyke-Linden Highway, is currently 65% complete, according to the Ministry of Education.
The Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand, recently visited the construction site and expressed her satisfaction that the school is ahead of schedule. If work continues at its current pace, the school will be finished by May 2023 as per contract.
She said that the school will accommodate 600 students from Yarrowkabra and neighbouring communities along the Soesdyke-Linden Highway which were hitherto unserved by secondary education.
Minister Manickchand said that the new school will complement the already existing Yarrowkabra Nursery and Primary Schools in the community.
Further, she said that the Ministry will be able to cater better for children on the East Bank of Demerara with a new secondary school that is going to be built at Prospect. She said that this school will cater for 1000 students.
The Education Minister also visited the construction site for the new St. Rose’s High School which she reported is on schedule with 55% of the works completed.
These two new schools will be complete with modern classrooms, laboratories, industrial arts departments which will cater to TVET subjects, sanitary blocks and other auxiliary buildings.
She said that the rebuilding of St. Rose’s High School and the North Ruimveldt Secondary School, the construction of the Yarrowkabra Secondary School, the Good Hope Secondary School on the East Coast and the expansion of other schools such as East Ruimveldt Secondary, Queen’s College and the Bishops’ High School will create more space to accommodate the growing number of learners.
