TTUTA: 150 teachers still awaiting backpay

RAD­HI­CA DE SIL­VA

The Trinidad and To­ba­go Uni­fied Teach­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTUTA) says over 150 teach­ers, in­clud­ing re­tirees, are still wait­ing to re­ceive salary ar­rears owed to them for the 2020-2023 pe­ri­od, even as the Ed­u­ca­tion Min­istry says it has paid 95 per cent of ac­tive teach­ers their out­stand­ing back­pay.

Speak­ing to Guardian Me­dia yes­ter­day, TTUTA pres­i­dent Crys­tal Bevin Ashe said the as­so­ci­a­tion was aware that sev­er­al teach­ers had not re­ceived their back­pay, de­spite years of cam­paign­ing for the set­tle­ment of out­stand­ing salary ar­rears.