Displaced Students Miss First Day at Jamaica’s Coopers Pen School

COOPERS PEN SCHOOL BLUES

WESTERN BUREAU: Of the 25 school-age children whose homes were bulldozed during a recent demolition exercise in Coopers Pen, Trelawny, only seven ventured out for the start of the new school year on Monday, as displaced families struggled to prepare them for classes. When The Gleaner visited the community on Monday morning, residents said 18 of the children who would normally have returned to school had been relocated to stay with relatives in other areas, creating uncertainty about when – or...

By Christopher Thomas/Gleaner Writer