Ap­prox­i­mate­ly one week be­fore the new school term, the To­ba­go arm of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Uni­fied Teach­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTUTA) is rais­ing con­cerns about school readi­ness, ac­cus­ing the Di­vi­sion of Ed­u­ca­tion of fail­ing to pro­vide clear up­dates on its 2025 re­pair pro­gramme.

TTUTA To­ba­go of­fi­cer Bradon Roberts said the union sub­mit­ted a list of con­cerns since April but has re­ceived no feed­back. He warned that with­out trans­paren­cy, teach­ers, par­ents and stu­dents could face an­oth­er Sep­tem­ber of un­re­solved prob­lems.

“We have not got­ten any­thing from the Di­vi­sion… what we want this time around is trans­paren­cy,” Roberts told Guardian Me­dia. “When we come out, our schools in­di­cate to all our schools the work that you were not able to do, when would those works be done, the schools who had work that would not be com­plet­ed in time, how they ex­pect to com­plete it. We do not get hon­esty from our politi­cians na­tion­al­ly.”