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Battered schools, resilient results - Storm-hit western institutions make major gains in CSEC, CAPE

By Janet Silvera/Senior Gleaner Writer

WESTERN BUREAU: Before Beverley Feare could prepare her students for the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations, she first had to find them. Hurricane Melissa had torn through the communities served by Maud McLeod High School in eastern Westmoreland, damaging the school, displacing families, and cutting communication with students at a critical point in their preparation for the examinations.