By Jeff Trotman
The Region Ten Democratic Council has called on the Region’s Education Department to state the number of teachers whose salaries have been withheld because they returned to school late in the new term.
The council also wants an explanation on the apparent misinformation to the Region’s Education Committee by an officer of the Education Department, who claimed to have personally driven her car to distribute to head teachers in Linden a circular of amnesty for teachers from the Chief Education Officer (CEO), Olato Sam.
The matter was raised at the RDC’s October Statu-tory Meeting by AFC Councillor, Audwin Rutherford, who said that he had asked several teachers in the Region about the circular but no one seemed to have seen, or knew anything about the circular that had information on an amnesty for teachers, who returned late for the beginning of the school term from their overseas trips.
The AFC Councillor, who is a member of the Region’s Education Com-mittee said he was “wondering if the officer had lied to the committee?” He further stated that his wife was told to change the date on her ticket and she had done so.
Regional Chairman, Sharma Solomon, who is chairman of the education committee, in support of Rutherford’s concern, said that teachers had been advised to take in their ticket or flight itinerary to the Education Department and once it was observed that the date of their return was between the new opening date for the school year and the old one, they would be
