Education and Youth Minister, Fayval Williams, has declared that the ministry is "tired" of the "false claims" and "mischief" which she said is being spread relative to the purported inaccurate salaries being received by local teachers under the new compensation review.
While highlighting that she has respect for the Jamaica Teachers' Association's (JTA's) advocacy for local educators, Williams reiterating her call for the union's president, La Sonja Harrison, to desist from speaking in genera about teachers who have discrepancies with their salaries.
"We will, as of now, whenever these issues come up, we are going to research them, and we are going to put it out in public," declared Williams at a post-Cabinet press briefing on Wednesday.
"We're tired of just the negatives around this (the perceived discrepancies with teacher salaries), and the innuendoes.
"We're tired of the false claims, and we would like the president of the JTA, Mrs La Sonja Harrison, to bring us specifics," the minister stated sternly.
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