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Dec 14, 2010 Letters

Dear Editor,
While the disciplined services would receive their fat bonuses and tax-free salaries in a few days’ time, there is no excuse at all from the government for offering teachers a meager 1% salary increase.
More so, it is an utter embarrassment and shame to know that nearly six months after teachers participated in the Remedial programme at Primary and Secondary schools, they have not received a red cent from the Ministry of Education.
Every level of authorities are brushing off the questions about when teachers would be paid this money which many say has been ‘written in stone’ and won’t last long since it is being ‘cried’ upon to be had.
No one at NCERD knows about the payment. No one at the Ministry of Education knows about payment.
Further to this, Mr. Goolsarran of NCERD told graduating teachers of the NCERD Non- graduate course 2010 batch (the first batch) that after graduating, they would receive a little incremental increase on their salaries. This was in June.
The first batch finished the programme in December of last year. A new batch has begun.
I suppose they would be lied to at their graduation in 2012 as well. To date, nothing has materialized.
The Remedial programme is being disowned; nobody knows anything all of a sudden. Education officer for Secondary Schools in Guyana, Melcita Bovell, sent a circular to schools in June asking for teachers to conduct the programme. Maybe, the money should come out of her pocket.
But as we say in Guyana: “Next time deh”.
Leon Suseran

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