Teacher backpay hits bank accounts

Teach­ers across Trinidad and To­ba­go have re­ceived their long-await­ed back­pay for salaries cov­er­ing 2020 to 2023, ac­cord­ing to Trinidad and To­ba­go Uni­fied Teach­ers’ As­so­ci­a­tion (TTUTA) pres­i­dent Crys­tal Ashe.

Ashe told Guardian Me­dia on Tues­day that on­ly a small num­ber of teach­ers had not seen the pay­ments re­flect­ed on the IHIRIS plat­form, which al­lows pub­lic of­fi­cers to view their payslips on­line.

She said those teach­ers con­tact­ed the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion, which made arrange­ments for them to re­ceive their pay­ments by vouch­ers.