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Ministry of Education , Heritage and Arts permanent secretary Alison Burchell. Picture: FT. File
Outgoing Ministry of Education , Heritage and Arts permanent secretary Alison Burchell. Picture: FT FILE

THE Education Ministry is working with stakeholders to help relocate villagers of Qamea Island before building a school for students of Laucala District School.

This was the word from the Education Ministry permanent secretary Alison Burchell.

The issue of how students were attending classes in church buildings after the school was damaged during TC Winston was highlighted by this newspaper last week.

Ms Burchell said the bigger issue was the relocation of the whole village.

“So the issue is for us and we are discussing it with the commissioner, the Ministry of Lands, the iTaukei Affairs and with the Ministry of Economy to see what is the best option moving forward,” she said.

“Because if we build a classroom there, it is going to be continuously subjected to landslide and we do not want to put people in danger in that perspective so the best option for us is to find a piece of land within the context of having to move the whole village.”

Meanwhile, Education Minister Rosy Akbar earlier told this newspaper that funding for rebuilding works at Laucala District School was allocated in the 2019/2020 budget.

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