200 Teachers Yet To Receive Outstanding Increments

According to BNTU President Nadia Caliz, increment payments are still outstanding for at least two hundred teachers. She explained that this is not entirely the government’s fault, and that most of the blame rest with school administrators and management.

 

Nadia Caliz, President, B.N.T.U

“We have over two hundred teachers that did not receive.”

 

Paul Lopez

“Was it not the government’s commitment to have all of those teachers receive their payments before Christmas?”

 

Nadia Caliz

“Yes, that was the government’s commitment, but there is another part to that too. Every time you say something Belize polarize everything, red and blue. Every time you are telling you are either with PUP or UDP. As the president of BNTU I will call a spade a spade and an angel an angel. The government paid what they received. What they got from the management they gave to the management. Discussing with some of the teachers they will tell you that some principals and vice principals who have responsibility over their section and appraisals did not submit their stuff to the management, therefore the management did not submit it to government for them to be paid. So, as a union we have to be fair. So when we step out our data will reflect the percentage that got affected because of administrations not carrying out their duties, management not doing their part and government not doing their part. So we did not just want to step out for the sake of stepping out, because we are BNTU and powerful and we voted in a demonstration. We have to be a responsible body, because we have to be about system change now. We want to change the system permanently and that is what my members need to understand. This is not a fight for instant gratification to get something instantly. Deh days done.”