Home News CXC students’ agri SBAs threatened by porous fence at Fort Wellington Secondary
…as animals invade garden used for assessment
Students of the Fort Wellington Secondary School are frustrated with the poor fencing of the facility, noting that animals constantly invade the compound and devastate their agriculture school-based assessment for the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations. 
The issue was raised at the level of the Regional Democratic Council of Region Five (Mahaica-Berbice) after a complaint regarding the poor fencing at the Fort Wellington Secondary School was ventilated. Students particularly complain that, due to the inadequate fence, animals often invade the school’s compound and destroy the garden which they use for their school-based assessment (SBA) for agriculture science.
Councillor Emerson Benjamin raised the issue at a recent Regional Democratic Council (RDC) meeting, highlighting that students are currently preparing to write their Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations.
“I don’t know if it is the residents or children of Fort Wellington Secondary School… but every time the children or the teachers try to patch that fence, somebody removes what they put to block the holes. The children have a shade house where they have their projects, and the animals would go in and destroy the children’s plants,” Benjamin told the RDC.
He called upon the regional administration to pay urgent attention to the issue, but
Region Five Chairman Vickchand Ramphal pointed out that the school has 24-hour security, and the administration would be engaging the security firm on the matter.
“Like we always do, we have routine maintenance within all of the schools across the region, and I am sure that some work will be done on the fence,” the Regional Chairman pointed out.
When this publication visited the school, a security rank on duty at the time said it is impossible for one guard to keep the animals out, as there are numerous holes in the fence through which cattle and smaller animals enter. (G4)
