THE principal of a city private school is in a stew following government’s move to secure First Federation Building on lower Croal Street, Stabroek.

On receiving notice of government’s intention yesterday, Aluku Jarvis, head of the privately-owned Princeton College, housed in the building, kept pacing the floor nervously, deep in thought about what would be his next move.
Jarvis related that occupants of the building were required to pay a rental fee of $5000 per month to the DPP’s Office, but he has shockingly not done so for three years, as stipulated on the notice he has been served.
Perusal of the document revealed that Jarvis owes a total of $155,000 in arrears rent for the past three years.
Attorney-General Anil Nandlall has filed proceedings in the Magistrates Court against all the occupants of the building, and had explained that that course of action was taken because they are tenants of the building. Nandlall said a notice to quit and give up possession of the building was earlier served on occupants, but they had refused to budge.
The building houses the offices of several prominent attorneys-at-law, and two private schools respectively the Imperial and Princeton colleges.
This newspaper understands that several of the attorneys using the building have already commenced filing injunctions to stay the eviction notices.

Principal ponders
Aluku Jarvis is at a loss what to do, since he claims it would be totally impossible to relocate at short notice because it would cost him several hundred thousand dollars to now rent a large enough building to accommodate his students, which number close to two hundred.
And Jarvis seems to be quite a careless school head, since investigations revealed that he has not registered his private school for over a year now, but still operates the institution. Jarvis also admitted to these allegations yesterday.
The Princeton College teaches various subjects to school dropouts and students whose parents and previous schools had given up on them and had labelled them ‘failures’. On learning of the issue, some students from the Princeton College were alarmed and disgruntled at the possibility of relocating.