St.Peters:--- Students of several schools in the St. Peters area were stranded in their school compound surrounded by water as the principals of these schools tried several times to reach the Ministry of Education to get directives to call the school buses to take home the students.Students of the St. Maarten Academy were seen trying to get through the water on a chair that is dragged by rope and other students. Some parents who showed up at the school to retrieve their children had to leave without their children because the school did not obtain directives from the Ministry of Education to release the students.
SMN News made several phone calls to the policy advisor of Minister Rhoda Arrindell to see who would be giving out the directives and when but we were told to contact the sector director Mrs. Claudette Forsight Labega who could not be reached by phone. It is understood that CIB was instructed to call out the bus drivers to take the students home as government is trying to avoid a congested road ways if parents should head out towards the schools.
Photos of the flooded roads on St. Maarten.