Scores of teachers turned up at the Region Five office yesterday afternoon in Fort Wellington, West Berbice, to protest after they were told that the Regional Executive Officer (REO) would be withholding pay cheques from teachers who were traveling abroad.
According to the reports reaching Stabroek News, some 200-plus teachers turned up around 3 pm at the RDC’s office where they protested and requested the presence of the REO, Ovid Morrison, for him to give an explanation as to why he had made a decision to withhold the pay of those travelling abroad.
“He said a lot of teachers are not coming back but those teachers don’t earn a lot of money as it is. If the teacher has to go on vacation he is withholding an entire month’s pay,” a source who was on the picket line related to Stabroek News last night.
