George Henry, Freelance WriterDefiant parents and students of the Palmer's Cross Primary and Junior High School, in Clarendon, have replaced the locks and chains on the school gate which the police had removed on Friday.
The parents and students had been demonstrating against the appointment of a new principal at the school and had, since Thursday, been locking the main gate to the school. On Friday morning they welded chains together to lock the gate and the May Pen police had to cut the gate open on Friday. However, the locks were put back on the gate Friday night. They remained there up to press time yesterday.
The protesters, who are demanding that Vice Principal, Myrtle Roye, be appointed headmistress, are calling on the Ministry of Education and the school's board of directors to change the decision of appointing Jennis Thomas to the school's top post. Mrs. Roye has been at the school for 36 years.
According to an officer at the May Pen police station, the protesters are adamant that Mrs. Roye must be appointed or efforts to have classes resumed after four days of intense protest would be futile.
