Regional Executive Officer (REO) of Region Five Ovid Morrison has claimed that there is a regulation he is enforcing to withhold teachers’ salaries and the Guyana Teachers Union (GTU) is waiting to see same, before they decide their next course of action.
This is according to Minister of State Joseph Harmon, who was asked about the issue at yesterday’s post-Cabinet press briefing.
This was in view of the hundreds of teachers who turned up on Thursday at the Regional Democratic Council’s Office in Fort Wellington, West Berbice, to protest after Morrison instructed the education office to withhold the salaries of teachers who were going on vacation.