TT: Teacher pay, yes, teacher productivity, yes

Commenting on the planned shutdown of the entire school system on Friday by the Trinidad and Tobago Unified Teachers Association (TTUTA), Education Minister Hazel Manning yesterday said “What TTUTA is doing is their democratic right.” “It is time to negotiate, and they are at the table negotiating one more time,” she said, adding “I can only hope at the end of the day, whatever increase they get, a similar increase in productivity will ensue. “We really would like to see more given to the young people,” she pleaded, as “our concern really is to produce that child who would be able to cope and do well to develop in society, taking his/her place on the world stage.”