The Pub­lic Ser­vices As­so­ci­a­tion (PSA) has ac­cept­ed a ten per cent of­fer from act­ing Chief Per­son­nel Of­fi­cer Wendy Bar­ton and is hop­ing pub­lic ser­vants will re­ceive their back­pay by Christ­mas.

Speak­ing with the me­dia af­ter a three-hour-long meet­ing with Bar­ton at the CPO’s of­fice in Port-of-Spain yes­ter­day, PSA pres­i­dent Fe­l­isha Thomas said the of­fer was a promise made and kept by the Gov­ern­ment.

“I’m hap­py to say to the mem­ber­ship of the PSA this af­ter­noon that an­oth­er promise made is an­oth­er promise de­liv­ered. We have in our hands, de­liv­ered by Act­ing CPO Ms Wendy Bar­ton, an of­fer of ten per cent which the PSA will be re­spond­ing to by this evening (yes­ter­day). As we have said, our main aim is to en­sure that we close these ne­go­ti­a­tions and put some monies in our mem­bers’ pock­ets by Christ­mas.”