Primary school shut for repairs as term begins
(CNS): Sir John A Cumber Primary School in West Bay was closed Friday for emergency electrical repairs, just as the young students returned to school after the summer break. The Department of Education Services (DES) described the situation as an electrical emergency. Meanwhile, a mysterious object was found in a child’s lunch at an undisclosed government school Wednesday, which caused “deep concern”.
Despite that concern, the DES was far from transparent about the “unfortunate incident where a foreign object was found in a student’s lunch” as they did not reveal the school or what the object was. DES Acting Director Elroy Bryan said the department took the matter seriously.
“We are committed to ensuring the safety and well-being of all students in our schools,” he said, adding that the school’s principal swiftly addressed the situation by contacting the canteen providers, the DES and the child’s parents. “We deeply regret any concern or discomfort this incident may have caused to those directly affected or the members of our wider school community. We are conducting a thorough investigation to ensure such an incident does not reoccur,” Bryan said.
He said the closure at the West Bay school was temporary and explained that the school’s electrical metre had malfunctioned and needed to be replaced.
“Based on reports from the Caribbean Utilities Company (CUC) and the Public Works Department, it has been determined that replacing of the electrical metre and affected components is necessary to ensure the continued safety of our students and staff,” he said in a DES release. “Unfortunately, due to the complexity of the repairs and the need for a thorough inspection and approval process, the school will need to be closed.”
Bryan apologised to parents for the inconvenience and advised parents to check the school’s social media pages for updates.
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11:58
The ignorance on this rock is mind boggling. No source of radiation?
HEALTHCARE
3 hospitals, radiology diagnostic centers, dentists, veterinarians, soon to come cancer treatment Center…
Radiography (x-rays) and dental x-rays.
Mammography.
DEXA Scans (bone density)
CT scans (computed tomography scans)
Fluoroscopy.
Nuclear medicine.
CARGO SYSTEM, AIRPORT, CUSTOMS
X-ray security inspection systems-cargo port, airport – Large-scale gamma ray/x-ray imaging systems, high-energy, high-performance transmission X-rays deeply penetrate densely loaded containers.
Man-made sources not mentioned above:
• August 2023 Japan has started releasing treated radioactive water from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean.
• Radon – repeated exposure over time — around 20 years — can lead to cancer development
Does Cayman have at least ONE person who is at lest aware of radiation safety? Or just like 11:58 they are clueless?
Does every Cayman hospital have a Radiation Safety Officer? How do dentists, veterinarians, radiology services get permissions/licenses to practice and use radioactive materials?
The Law mandates Cayman’s expat children attend Private school.
Private school is expensive, crippling in some cases, yet the Cayman Islands Government pays out more per head for an education by to the government schools.
Hold the government and their laws accountable! Expats cannot be blamed for that scenario.
Actually, there are today hundreds of expatriate children in government schools. The government stopped following our laws. Now Caymanians are being excluded from government schools and the costs are bankrupting us. There should be hell to pay.
Really? How are there expats’ kids at government schools? I didn’t think that was possible (except perhaps for a few civil service employees).
One of the reasons so many expats leave is because the cost of private schooling here is effectively a tax on being here, so they go back home where they can access government schools.
Meanwhile, a new expat private primary school “Island Primary” opens in “Buttonwood Park” and will likely do very well and provide quality education for those rich expats who can afford it. Who are we developing Cayman for?
Maybe if the Government adopted British or American curricula, and sought the best teachers from around the world, then there would be no need for petty jealously and Caymanian children would be receiving the same benefits. They certainly should. Government spends more per child for the education it provides than almost all the private schools.
Oh, and there are hundreds of Caymanian children in the “expat” schools as you describe them.
“Hundreds” 4:58? Really? I doubt it though I do not doubt there is a significant number of “new Caymanian” children from the wealthier former expat families attending them. They can afford the very high fees that the “generational Caymanians” usually cannot.
Foreigners, 5:02.
The expats are paying less for their worldclass education than the Cayman Government is paying for #worldclass education for Caymanians. Think on that.
Cayman is being developed by the foreigners you sold it to, for the foreigners and Caymanians which they in turn will sell to.
Must have missed the it where we developed the private primary school? Otherwise isn’t it the expats that are developing the school for the expats – bit like the Cayman government is developing schools for Caymanians? The expats not being allowed to attend the public schools they really have very little choice but to build their own, which you seem to find offensive for some reason.
The expats don’t want their kids to attend school with the “locals” so stop with the hypocrisy 11:53.
No true. They however want to access the best possible education, from the best possible teachers, in the best possible environment, with the best possible outcomes.
I’m still passing foreign objects from Miss Corita’s chili but it didn’t do me any harm.
And you want to built and run WTE in Cayman; might as well move to Chernobyl, it is actually very beautiful and peaceful over there- some radiation, but not much else. If you start monitoring radiation levels in Cayman you could be surprised…but there is no Radiation Act, so nobody cares…
Well in the absence of an obvious source of radioactivity you are damn right I would be surprised if I found high radiation levels in Cayman. Chernobyl had a nuclear reactor accident. Where exactly do you think its coming from?
Medical facilities. Cesium.
another fine mess by the civil service….zzzzzz
Another fine mess you’ve gotten us into, Ollie!
#worldclassmyass
Also, a ‘metre’ is a measurement of length, just saying.
The Acting Director Mr. Bryan is quoted as saying ‘metre’ when the correct English grammar spelling is ‘meter’. Please refresh your grammar before you release advisories to the public. Remember the internet is the World Wide Web.
It’s not a direct quote from him, nugget. Even if it was, it would need to be a written quote…
Are you American? Metre is the correct English (British) spelling.
Are you stupid? Wait, don’t answer that.
Meanwhile, a mysterious object was found in a child’s lunch at an undisclosed government school Wednesday, which caused “deep concern”.
Fruit or vegetable?
Was this lunch brought from the child’s home, or provided by the school? Very different scenarios!
CNS, do you think Guido’s question is worth pursuing? Seems others do…
CNS: The release said that the DES contacted the canteen providers, indicating that it was a school lunch and not a packed lunch. See paragraph 3.