In his first public comment on the five-day-old teachers strike, President Irfaan Ali yesterday called for patience as he says he has promised incremental benefits but he was silent on why his government has not entered collective bargaining with the GTU over the last three and a half years.
As teachers took to the street in Port Mourant, Corentyne yesterday where the President was commissioning the first phase of the Guyana Technical Training College Inc, he reminded that he had promised incremental benefits.
Ali said that last year he met with nurses, teachers and the public service where he had said that they have a duty to improve in totality the education and health care systems.