The St James Well being Division has ordered the speedy closure of the canteen at Cornwall School due to health-related considerations.
The directive was issued immediately and can stay in place till additional discover.
“It offers us no pleasure to order the canteen closed however we mainly had no alternative …. we had been attempting to work by way of the problems with the college, however we weren’t getting wherever with it,” Lennox Wallace, the pinnacle the St James Public Well being Companies, informed The STAR shortly earlier than mid-day immediately.
Wallace mentioned the administration of the college is absolutely conscious of what must be executed to rectify the scenario, and the well being division stands able to additional information them by way of the method.
“We stand able to work with them [school’s administrators] as a result of we perceive the significance of getting the boys at school and never having their training disrupted,” continued Wallace.
“If the scenario is rectified immediately, we stand prepared to present them the greenlight to re-open the canteen tomorrow,” he added.
Arising from the closure of the canteen, the college determined to ship dwelling college students from face-to-face lessons to on-line educating.
A supply near the college informed The STAR that the choice to droop face-to-face lessons was not part of the directive from the well being division, however due to the dislocation attributable to the closure of the canteen, this resolution was taken by the college’s administration.
Efforts to get an official response from the college’s administration had been unsuccessful as The STAR was informed the directors had been locked in a gathering.
– Adrian Frater
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