25 Million Dollar Upgrade For The Lodge School

The Lodge School is in for an upgrade that is likely to cost $25 million.

The project, set to start in the new financial year, was announced on Friday by Minister of Education and Human Resource Development, Ronald Jones.

The Lodge School, which has fallen into substantial disrepair, is one of the schools on which work will commence in the new financial year...," Jones said in the House of Assembly.

"That facility could possibly end up costing in the region of $25 million. It is absolutely mind-boggling when one looks at the kind of expenditure (required)."

According to Jones, the plan includes protecting buildings of historical importance at the St John school.

Over the years Government has spent millions of dollars building and upgrading primary and secondary schools under an Education Sector Enhancement Programme, partly funded by the Inter-American Development Bank and the Caribbean Development Bank.

Jones made the comments when the House debated the education component of a resolution to put the sum of $55 million from the Consolidated Fund at the disposal of Government to supplement the 2008-09 Estimates of Expenditure.

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