PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) – Education officials were Monday giving students assurances that their security would not be compromised as a second voicenote emerged in Trinidad and Tobago warning of an attack on secondary schools here.

Education Minister Anthony Garcia has denounced the latest security threat describing it as the work of deranged minds trying to destabilise the country.

He said he had been given an assurance from National Security minister that the students should not panic and that school will resume as usual on Tuesday. Monday is a public holiday here.

Last week, security officials were investigating the authenticity of a recording that warned of bombings that would occur at some of the shopping malls across the island. One person has since been taken into custody after police said he had phoned in a threat last Thursday.

In this latest recording, the voice warns that “there will be no CXC examinations on Wednesday and there will be no school for any secondary school students on Wednesday.

“The word is that ISIS has planned to blow up the schools, so please keep your sons and daughters and nephews and grandchildren away from the schools please. This is not no joke, this is not no kicks.”

The Barbados-based Caribbean Examination Council (CXC) has said that six Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Exam (CAPE) and three Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) exams are scheduled for June 1.

Garcia said that “there will be school as usual on Wednesday and in fact for the entire week, until the end of the term.”

“There will be no disruption to the CXC exams for both CSEC and CAPE students,” the education minister said, urging students and parents to “ignore that message as it was somebody with a deranged mind who is trying to instill fear in the minds of our population.

“It is something we totally reject,” he said, adding “I am confident that all security measures are in place so that in the event there is any truth to these rumours, we will be prepared.”