Teachers begin receiving $300 stipend requested by Teachers Union
Speaking on JTV News moments ago, November 3, 2021, Dr Wheatley said, "As it pertains to teachers in general, one of the five requests made to me as Minister by the [BVI] Teachers Union had to do with the payment of a three hundred dollar stipend.
"This is a payment actually requested by the Teachers Union. They asked for it for practical reasons and symbolic reasons. Practical reasons mean they take a lot of money out of their pockets to pay for school every year to buy resources and things like that but symbolic to recognise the efforts of our teachers in these very difficult times, where we have a pandemic."
"I am happy to say I distributed the first set of stipend just this morning and I am going to be distributing over the course of the next few days," Dr Wheatley disclosed.
The Education Minister insisted that it's not simply about the money but delivering on a promise, "and about building trust with our hard-working teachers and, again, I apologise to the teachers that it is late in coming but it is now being delivered."


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