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Myriad Issues Forcing Teachers Out of Local Classrooms

An estimated 50 percent of Jamaica’s educators are yet to be compensated despite a recent promise of payout to include their retroactive pay for Monday. 

President of the Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA), Lasonja Harrison is urging teachers who are so impacted to contact their regional and association representatives. She notes with concern the pattern of delays and glitches in the system further hampering members. 

The JTA Boss is also sure of the discontentment and the threat it poses to teaching and learning, reminding affected members to contact their JTA representatives. Harrison bemoans the effects of the continued delays on the financial and social well-being of members demanding alacrity in remedying the problem. Watch the report:

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