While some teachers are expecting payments from a 2011 debunching agreement that was secured by their union, Perma-nent Secretary Delma Nedd says the Ministry of Education (MoE) never agreed to make any such payment.
According to the 2011-2015 agreement between the MoE and the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU), “an equivalent of approximately one per cent of the teachers’ wage bill will be used to implement the debunching exercise by the end of May, 2011.” This condition has not been met.
Currently teachers are paid on a scale constituted using academic qualifications, with no accounting for experience. A debunching of the salary scale would see teachers being paid different salaries, commensurate with their years of experience.