Less than two months af­ter re­duc­ing the over­time rates known as pool at the North Cen­tral Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty (NCRHA), the man­age­ment is now re­vert­ing to the old­er rates.

In March, the NCRHA dropped pool rates from $75 an hour to $60, claim­ing the high­er pay­out was in con­tra­ven­tion of the Chief Per­son­nel Of­fi­cer’s man­date.

In a Face­book post yes­ter­day, how­ev­er, the Trinidad and To­ba­go Na­tion­al Nurs­ing As­so­ci­a­tion (TTNNA) said NCRHA man­age­ment “has now moved to tem­porar­i­ly in­crease the “pool” rate to $75 in a des­per­ate at­tempt to ad­dress the staffing cri­sis.”