PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, CMC – The Ministry of Nationwide Schooling says it’s making ready to distribute greater than 34,000 cheques to all its employees, academics, and administrative employees all through Haiti.
It acknowledged that every of the cheques represents 4 months of compensation that ought to have been credited to the debit card the Ministry has dedicated to distributing to all its workers, as per one of many factors of the settlement signed with the academics’ union on January 20 this 12 months.
The settlement successfully ended a strike that had paralyzed each public and excessive colleges and was thought to be a major step towards college students all through the nation returning to the classroom.
As a part of the settlement, academics and Schooling Ministry employees had been to obtain a debit card for 15,000 Gourdes (roughly US$1,000) from February this 12 months.
The Administrative Director of the Ministry of Schooling, Guichard Chéry, acknowledged that the Ministry needed to make the most of this selection as a result of it didn’t wish to delay the watch for the academics, who had been ready for an advance for over two months.
The federal government mentioned that the concept is to supply every public sector trainer with a debit card topped up month-to-month by the Public Treasury with 15,000 Gourdes.
Minister of Schooling Antoine Augustin mentioned that every one departmental administrators of schooling are to take acceptable measures to make sure that the rightful beneficiaries obtain the cost and that nobody is allowed to obtain cheques on behalf of anybody.
