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Akash Sama­roo

Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo is as­sur­ing teach­ers that their re­vised salaries and out­stand­ing back pay will be set­tled be­fore the end of the first quar­ter of 2026.

While he did not pro­vide a spe­cif­ic pay­ment date—some­thing the Trinidad and To­ba­go Uni­fied Teach­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTUTA) re­quest­ed in a let­ter de­liv­ered to his of­fice on Mon­day—union pres­i­dent Crys­tal Ashe re­mains cau­tious­ly op­ti­mistic.