On the same day Shadow Health Minister Louise Jackson called for an immediate “third party review” of the air quality at CedarBridge Academy, students staged an on-campus demonstration to show their frustration over the potentially unresolved mould concerns at the school.

This morning pupils are expected to strike again with some kind of secondary protest, although that information could not be confirmed last night.

Yesterday students refused to re-enter their classrooms after the lunch break, according to several CedarBridge pupils who were there.

The crowd of students apparently dispersed when principal Kalmar Richards responded to the disturbance.

The initial protest comes one day after The Royal Gazette reported the health conditions of dance teacher Zalika Millett, 30. She collapsed at the school and was rushed to hospital earlier this month. She later tested positive for aspergillus mould, one of the potentially dangerous fungi found at the school last year.

It is on the heels of that revelation that Ms Jackson said: “It’s time to end the uncertainty. The United Bermuda Party wants the Government to conduct a third party review of the CedarBridge situation immediately and report the findings to the public.”

Her call was followed by an announcement from the Ministry of Education yesterday that it would hold a press conference today to give the public “an update on the actions which have been taken regarding air quality concerns at the school”.

Senator Kim Wilson told the Senate on Wednesday that air quality experts had returned to the Island this week to carry out further tests.

In the House of Assembly last Friday Education Minister Randy Horton rebuked Ms Jackson for even suggesting that mould had returned to the senior school.

Ms Millett revealed her illness to colleagues in an email earlier this week. Her positive test result comes more than two months after the school was reopened and considered safe to renter by international mould experts.

Mrs. Jackson said: “This young woman, whom I happen to know, is sick. Her doctor has said that she does have an aspergillus mould infection. That’s a fact.

“They have been back in that school for three months and she certainly did not have problems before. Why would she all of a sudden come down with it if it was a clean building?”

Work to clean up the mould at the Island’s largest public school after it was closed suddenly in November cost almost $4 million but claims that staff and students are still falling sick due to the environment have persisted since the New Year.

Mrs. Jackson, whom Mr. Horton accused of “speaking really without any truth”, said: “Unanswered doubts about air quality in the school undermine the learning environment, for both students and teachers. Is their health endangered or not?

“Instead of forthright action to unequivocally resolve the situation and calm concerns, the Government dithers and questions the integrity of anyone expressing concerns.

“I think the country would have greater respect for the Government if they did not try to shoot down messengers bearing the truth.

“The pattern to date has been to deny, delay and deride anyone raising the alarm about mould in the school. But these ‘alarmists’ have proven to be right every time.”

She added: “This Government after eight years still does not know how to level with the people — even in a situation where its responsibility for the health of children should be their only concern.

“The thing that really scares me about this Government is that they seem to feel that the public is really stupid; that they can’t look at these things and figure them out for themselves.”

A Ministry of Education spokesman said she had no comment on Mrs. Jackson’s remarks.