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<figure class="wp-block-image"><img src="https://buzz-caribbean.com/app/uploads/2019/09/karl-samuda-20190911-1024x733.jpg" alt="Minister with responsibility for Education, Youth and Information, Karl Samuda (Photo: JIS)" class="wp-image-8639" /><figcaption>Minister with responsibility for Education, Youth and Information, Karl Samuda (Photo: JIS)</figcaption></figure>
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<p>Four schools will be removed from the
shift system in the 2019/20 fiscal year at a total cost of $93.9 million.</p>
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<p>They are Exchange All-Age School in
St Ann, which will be upgraded at a cost of $21.9 million; Albert Town High
School, Trelawny, $30 million; Cedric Titus High School, Trelawny, $12 million;
and Port Antonio High, Portland, $30 million.</p>
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<p>Minister with responsibility for
Education, Youth and Information, Karl Samuda, made the disclosure as he
responded to questions posed by Opposition Spokesman on Education, Ronald
Thwaites, during the sitting of the House of Representatives on September 10.</p>
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<blockquote class="wp-block-quote"><p>"The plan is all schools will be taken off shifts."</p><cite>— Samuda</cite></blockquote>
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<p>He noted that the four schools are
among the 37 institutions that remain on shift.</p>
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<p>Some of the others are St James High;
Old Harbour High and Spanish Town High, St Catherine; Boundbrook Primary,
Portland; Donald Quarrie High and Jonathan Grant High, Kingston; Chapelton
All-Age, Clarendon; Bellefield High and Christiana High, Manchester;
Petersfield High, Westmoreland; St Ann’s Bay Primary; and Seaforth High, St
Thomas.</p>
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<p>“The plan is all schools will be
taken off shifts. The Capital Budget is $1.2 billion, and $644 million has been
budgeted for infrastructure works,” Samuda said.</p>
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