Let me see if I understand this correctly. Jerome Fitzgerald, Minister of Education and as such in charge of the country's government schools, boasts that his ministry spent so much money over the summer that the recipients of these tax dollars can now send their kids to private schools and no longer have to rely on the government ones they just repaired? Got it.

Whatever they did with the money is not what the message was. The message was that 800 jobs were created and that individuals whom had no work or present contracts to sustain their families now saw it possible to afford whatever they choose to do legally with their money. You think the workers for Cost Rite only shop at Cost Rite, or Super Value only shop at Super value. Stop being narrow minded. You got that. An individual is not restricted to spend their money to the likeness of you, but I sure hope you settle to obtain all of whatever your job offers only from your place of work.

Actually they don't but they probably should....think of someone working to pepsi but only is drink coke....you sending a message that I work at Pepsi I have inside information that something so wrong with pepsi soda I refuse to drink it. And if you not even supporting what you work for and the company loses money you will eventually have no where to work

You make a good point about the message the employee could be sending but its still up to any individual to spend their income on goods or services as they wish. As it applies to the above topic, the contractors who perfer private school are still basic taxpayers so look at it this way, they're paying twice for their childrens education in a sense. Now with the point you made of the pepsi worker perfering to drink coke, look at a vegetarian working as a butcher. Its just his/her preference.

WoW!!! I wonder how much that contractor who could now send his two daughters to private school got paid. it must have been enough to last the three terms because when school opens the contract is up, so that better be enough money to last until next summer. This story is laughable.

They create hundreds of jobs every summer on school refurbishing,this is nothing new. And just because these people have not had a so called government contract in a while so they say does not mean that these guys have not had contracts at all. When a statement like the ones from the two so called contractors are made it has to be dissected because these guys weren't just sitting around just waiting for a summer contract to drop in their laps.

50 contractors are PLP's. 20 have become PLP's. 4 are family, friends or lovers of the PLP.

Why do we allow these politicians to parade before us with stupid remarks. No jobs have been created. All that has happened, is as always, because we allow our students to run down the schools each year, the government as they do every year, has to bring in "800" people to work to 2 weeks.

So what happens after the "two weeks". Are the jobs still there. I guess this is a part of the 10,000 jobs they are creating in the first year.

I just despise mindless stupidity on the part of our elected leaders.

maybe theres a reason those guys didn,t work for 5 years ,they suck ..if your such a crappy contractor you only work when your party is in and only in august ,maybe its time to find other work ,,lmao

mr fitzgerald ,maybe yourself ,mr sands ,mr finlynson and mr kemp can show us the treasure map to find the city market workers pension