Four schools will be removed from the

shift system in the 2019/20 fiscal year at a total cost of $93.9 million.

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.

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.

He noted that the four schools are

among the 37 institutions that remain on shift.

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.

“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.