Mould reported at CFBC, secretaries on sick leave

BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS– February 16^th 2017 – The Clarence Fitzroy Bryant College (CFBC) has a serious mould problem and some employees at the tertiary-level institution are said to be on sick leave.

St. Kitts-Nevis Labour Party (SKNLP) Parliamentary Representative for St. Christopher 3 (West Basseterre), Hon. Konris Maynard raised the issue on Wednesday.

He told listeners to Issues programme that a new roof which was constructed to cover the existing roof last year is causing serious health problems for the students, faculty and administrative staff resulting in several persons placed on extended leave by their doctors.

“The situation is real,” he told listeners to Freedom 102.5 and Kyss 102.5 FM.

Thursday news circulated that all of the secretaries at CFBC were on sick leave.

“Will the Team Unity Government close down the CFBC like it did the BHS,: asked MP Maynard.

That question is related to Team Unity demonstrations with the support of the school management that the BHS was contaminated and teachers and students were getting sick.

The Timothy Harris-led Team Unity Government played politics with the BHS issue before it took office and subsequently rejecting all the reports from local scientists,  the Trinidad-based Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA), the Caribbean Industrial Research Institute (CARIRI), also based in Trinidad and the Washington-based National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which recommended that the buildings could be inhabited after remedial works are completed.

Although the reports were rejected, the Harris PLP/CCM/PAM Government still removed three buildings from the original site and is using them as classrooms and to house the principal’s office at Taylors.

Desk, chairs, tables and air condition units were also removed and installed at the temporary BHS facility as well, as he Verchild’s High School and other schools.

Students are housed in several areas and use facilities at the Washington Archibald High School, the Beach-Allen Primary School, AVEC, Seventeen Degrees and upstairs Premiere Dental.