TEACHERS HOPEFUL FOR SALARY PAYOUT BY JAN  2026 - video Dailymotion

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Teachers could receive their long-awaited salary adjustments by January 2026. That's the optimistic update from Trinidad and Tobago Unified Teachers' Association President Crystal Bevin Ashe, following high-level talks with the Chief Personnel Officer.

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00:00After years of wage negotiations and mounting frustration among educators,

00:05there's renewed optimism tonight for teachers across the country.

00:10The Trinidad and Tobago Unified Teachers Association says

00:13progress has been made towards the payment of increased salaries

00:16following a four-hour meeting with Chief Personal Officer Dr. Darrell Dindial.

00:22Union officials described the discussions as productive,

00:25with several key matters brought to the table.

00:28My tutor would have just met with the Chief Personal Officer, Dr. Darrell Dindial, Commander,

00:34and we are pleased to say that it was a very fruitful meeting,

00:38very cordial, very professional, and quite a number of things would have come out of it.

00:43One thing that our membership would be waiting patiently to hear

00:46is that we have made some heavy with respect to your new salaries.

00:51In January, there's a Cabinet note going into more, please God.

00:55So once that Cabinet note is received and it is discussed and so on,

01:00we will hopefully get the new salary by January.

01:04Back pay, however, is expected to follow later,

01:07with the union hopeful that outstanding arrares could be settled

01:11by the end of the first quarter of 2026.

01:15Teachers had already accepted a 5% increase earlier this year

01:19for the period 2020 to 2023.

01:23Back pay, as we said, it will take a little longer,

01:26so we are hoping for the end of the first quarter,

01:29as we would have promised you.

01:31Dr. Darrell Dindial has made commitments to certain things

01:35and he seems like a very genuine individual

01:38and we would want to hold him to the promises that he would have made

01:41to tutor on this particular day.

01:42The update from Tutor comes just days after the Public Service Association

01:47secured a 10% salary increase for civil servants,

01:50statutory authorities and Tobago House of Assembly workers

01:54under a new memorandum of agreement.

01:57The Prime Minister on Friday told Parliament that public servants

02:00will be getting some money before Christmas,

02:03a move that has further heightened expectation among teachers,

02:08still awaiting their own adjustments.

02:10Aksha Girls, 10TV6 News.

TEACHERS HOPEFUL FOR SALARY PAYOUT BY JAN 2026

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