As the Guyana Teachers’ Union prepares for another meeting this morning with the Ministry of Education after months of strike action, President Irfaan Ali yesterday was optimistic that an agreement for resumption could be reached soon.
“…the most recent feedback I have received [suggests that] there seems to be some movement in relation to getting to an initial agreement and terms that could see this situation return to some amount of normalcy,” the President said when asked about the issue at a press conference he yesterday hosted at State House.
He said that he knows that there has been a “lot of ongoing work” and “discussions in relation to the resumption of work and also the issues raised by teachers”.
The matter has since been taken to the Court of Appeal, with the government seeking to overturn Chief Justice Sandil Kissoon’s ruling in favour of the teachers.
