Ninety-four schools were severely damaged during the passage of Hurricane Beryl.
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JTA President Leighton Johnson
By Clinton McGregor
President of the Jamaica Teachers' Association, Leighton Johnson, says there will be disruptions in the start of the new academic year next month due to the damage to schools by Hurricane Beryl.
The Ministry of Education said emergency repair work has begun on hundreds of schools damaged by the hurricane.
Ninety-four schools were severely damaged.
Mr. Johnson said administrators are now scrambling to get their schools operational for the start of the new school year.
While the repair work has started, he argued that it has been slow.
"For the magnitude of work that is required for those schools that were severely impacted, what is required for them to be opened for September morning, is a sustained, around the clock, non-let-up kind of approach to get those schools ready," he suggested.
He said the situation is very concerning for parents and students, as well as school administrators, who are feverishly trying to put in place contingencies to get their schools ready for reopening.
Mr. Johnson was a guest Sunday on Radio Jamaica's weekly review programme, That's a Rap.
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