The To­ba­go Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty has reaf­firmed its com­mit­ment to fair and trans­par­ent over­time com­pen­sa­tion for nurs­ing staff, as in­dus­tri­al ten­sions con­tin­ue to build with­in the pub­lic health sec­tor.

In a me­dia re­lease is­sued on March 27, the Au­thor­i­ty said it re­mains com­mit­ted to en­sur­ing nurs­es are prop­er­ly com­pen­sat­ed for ad­di­tion­al du­ties, while main­tain­ing ef­fi­cien­cy in health­care de­liv­ery across To­ba­go.

The state­ment comes days af­ter the Trinidad and To­ba­go Na­tion­al Nurs­es As­so­ci­a­tion warned that nurs­es could with­hold ex­tra-du­ty ser­vices over Gov­ern­ment’s move to stan­dard­ise pool rates.