KINGSTON, Jamaica (JIS) — The Ministry of Education says it has committed to putting in place several medium- to long-term security management strategies at Cumberland High School in Portmore, to mitigate the possibility of any further breaches.

Education minister Ruel Reid, in a media interview following a meeting at the school on November 14, said the institution would be provided with funding to acquire additional private security personnel.

Reid said the ministry would also be supporting the school in procuring and constructing perimeter fencing, which will make students safer as well as reduce the potential for truancy.

The minister noted that the school has also been granted permission to hire an additional dean of discipline.

Gun-toting men who gained access to the compound recently attacked students at the school.

Reid said that the school’s leadership has been tasked with putting in place a school-improvement plan and will be working along with stakeholders to customise the curriculum to meet the needs of the cohort.

“We want Cumberland to be a centre of excellence where every student that comes here will excel, but we need to customise our instruction programme to meet the students where they are and take them to the level we want them to go,” said Reid.