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Just over a month af­ter the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion said it was work­ing to re­sume the Em­ploy­ee As­sis­tance Pro­gramme, the Trinidad and To­ba­go Uni­fied Teach­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion says staff re­main with­out ac­cess and no fur­ther up­date has come.

Re­ports sur­faced in ear­ly Jan­u­ary that the pro­gramme had been dis­con­tin­ued for teach­ers. TTUTA lat­er clar­i­fied the halt af­fects all staff un­der the Teach­ing Ser­vice, in­clud­ing so­cial work­ers and guid­ance coun­sel­lors.

In a Jan­u­ary 9 press re­lease, the min­istry said it was “ac­tive­ly ad­dress­ing” the is­sue to “en­sure em­ploy­ees have ac­cess to ef­fec­tive, ef­fi­cient and sus­tain­able psy­cho­log­i­cal sup­port,” and promised fur­ther up­dates once arrange­ments were fi­nalised. No up­date has fol­lowed.