Bridgetown.
The Government of Barbados is spending $100 million dollars to build a new school and to refurbish several other schools across the island.
Minister of Education Ronald Jones, told journalists the abandonment of Louis Lynch Secondary School a decade ago had placed stress on the other 22 secondary schools.
He stated the corridor of Highway 6, from Newton, Christ Church to Six Roads, St Philip and the section of Highway 5 from South District, St George, along Lowland and St Patrick had been identified as the area suited for the new secondary school.
According to Jones, eight primary schools are being refurbished Wesley Hall, St Elizabeth Primary and Chalky Mount, St Martins and Mangrove may have to be demolished and rebuilt because of their deteriorating conditions.
government is burrowing $70 million from the Caribbean Development Bank along with $30 million from the Consolidated Fund to finance the venture.
