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Penal parents protest for new school

The content originally appeared on: Trinidad and Tobago Newsday News WE WANT A NEW SCHOOL: Parents protest outside the dilapidated St Dominic’s RC School in Penal on Tuesday. PHOTO BY MARVIN HAMILTON - Parents of pupils from the St Dominic's RC School protested on Tuesday to highlight deplorable conditions at the Penal Community Centre. They also demanded that the Government build a new school for the students and staff. Owing to the dilapidated conditions of the wooden school at Oliviere […]

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