The Trinidad and To­ba­go Na­tion­al Nurs­ing As­so­ci­a­tion is elat­ed that it was able to ne­go­ti­ate on be­half of nurs­es, which it be­lieves swayed the hand of Prime Min­is­ter Stu­art Young to en­sure they re­ceive a much-need­ed rise in salaries.

Speak­ing at a po­lit­i­cal meet­ing at Suc­cess Laven­tille Sec­ondary School on Wednes­day night, Young said af­ter a meet­ing with the TTNNA he in­struct­ed that nurs­es be giv­en an in­crease from 2013.

“It was al­so brought to my at­ten­tion yes­ter­day that the nurs­es work­ing for the Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ties across the length and breadth of Trinidad and To­ba­go have not had their salaries looked at and ad­just­ed since 2013. “Well, I stand here tonight as the eighth Prime Min­is­ter of Trinidad and To­ba­go and tell our nurs­es who have giv­en yeo­man ser­vice, who save lives and who look af­ter us in the hos­pi­tals and the health­care cen­tres that this morn­ing (Wednes­day) I gave in­struc­tions that that be fixed and that the CPO look at giv­ing our nurs­es in­creas­es from 2013.”