Nurses ‘disappointed’ after being left out of Tancoo’s fiscal package

Trinidad and To­ba­go Na­tion­al Nurs­es’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTNNA) pres­i­dent Leti­tia Cox says she was left dis­ap­point­ed by the 2027 Bud­get pre­sen­ta­tion.

Speak­ing with Guardian Me­dia out­side Par­lia­ment yes­ter­day, Cox said there was no men­tion of nurs­es de­spite pre­vi­ous promis­es by the Gov­ern­ment that nurs­es would be tak­en care of. She said the si­lence on nurs­es’ ar­rears and the pro­posed 10 per cent wage in­crease was par­tic­u­lar­ly dis­ap­point­ing.

In June, Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo, while pi­lot­ing the mo­tion for the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives to adopt the re­port of the Stand­ing Fi­nance Com­mit­tee, as­sured that pro­vi­sions for out­stand­ing wage set­tle­ments would be in­clud­ed in the 2027 Bud­get once on­go­ing ne­go­ti­a­tions and cal­cu­la­tions were com­plet­ed.