Feb 03, 2021 04:08:36 PM There will be a reamendment to the 2021 School calendar following the aftermath of Tropical Cyclones Yaca and Ana in the span of a month. This has been confirmed by the Minister for Education Rosy Akbar. This will see children having a week s break during the first term holidays instead of the two weeks. Akbar said they will be realigning the school curriculum due to the recent natural disasters which has affected the academic calendar. She said the school terms and assessment dates will be aligned after discussions are complete. She said all schools will re-open for classes on Monday, February 8th as the clean-up from the floods should be completed by this week.
Tropical Cyclone Ana
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A family of six from Soasoa Labasa are counting their lucky stars after they escaped unharmed when a landslide moved their house by almost 10 metres during the heavy rain brought by TC Ana.
Kamlesh Kumar says his parents, brother, sister-in-law and 2 nieces managed to move out of the house moments before the incident.
Kumar says at around midday Sunday, his family could feel something was about to happen as they could feel their house moving.
He adds they didn’t take any risk and moved out immediately.
The family is currently living with other relatives as they wait for things to normalise before they start repair works.
22 January, 2021, 12:15 am
From left: Ahmadiyya Muslim Women’s Movement secretary Nasra Khan, Minister for Education, Heritage and Arts, Rosy Akbar with and Mumtaz Begum. Picture: SUPPLIED
To assist the students in the North affected by Severe Tropical Cyclone Yasa, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Women’s Movement and the Ahmadiyya Anjuman Ishaat-i-Islam (Lahore/Fiji) Society gave a cheque of $7000 to the Minister for Education Rosy Akbar.
The organisation collectively presented the cheque to the minister earlier on Monday.
The secretary for the organisations, Nasra Khan, said their members generously contributed towards the donation.
“We would like to assist students, parents and the communities affected by STC Yasa,” she said.