A 100 percent increase in salary for all qualified teachers
AUGUST 31, 2011 | BY KNEWS | FILED UNDER LETTERS
Dear Editor,
I am happy to see that the AFC is focused on raising people’s salaries in tandem with reducing taxes (the VAT). This is very good news for Guyanese and they should take the AFC’s word that they will do what they say. It is feasible and possible! I felt really bad when I looked at what qualified, overworked teachers are earning in Guyana. Here in Canada, a teacher in his/her fifth year and who is earning a level 4 salary will get approximately $71,000 CDN yearly or $14,200,000 Guyana dollars which means they earn more than $1,000,000 Guyana dollars monthly. By their tenth year they should be earning close to $100,000 yearly (CDN) or $20,000,000 Guyana dollars.
I know Guyana is not Canada but I believe all our qualified teachers should get an immediate 25 percent increase in their salaries after the first budget is presented by the AFC. For the next three years they should get 25percent increases also, so by the end of the first four years of an AFC government teachers would have gotten a 100 percent increase in salaries. Of course other public sector workers will want to make similar demands but the new government should sit down and discuss with their unions a long term vision whereby their salaries too would be elevated along similar lines. This will be possible with better governance, greater accountability, and savings from the absence or drastic reduction of corruption.
Again I stress Guyana is not Canada but that does not mean we cannot pay our people a wage that would make them more productive, patriotic, happy and contented. A new AFC government should make education the cornerstone of their plan to make this country the Singapore of the Caribbean. They can start that blue print for the future with a 100 percent increase in salary for all qualified teachers.
Clyde Pestano
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AUGUST 31, 2011 | BY KNEWS | FILED UNDER LETTERS
Dear Editor,
I am happy to see that the AFC is focused on raising people’s salaries in tandem with reducing taxes (the VAT). This is very good news for Guyanese and they should take the AFC’s word that they will do what they say. It is feasible and possible! I felt really bad when I looked at what qualified, overworked teachers are earning in Guyana. Here in Canada, a teacher in his/her fifth year and who is earning a level 4 salary will get approximately $71,000 CDN yearly or $14,200,000 Guyana dollars which means they earn more than $1,000,000 Guyana dollars monthly. By their tenth year they should be earning close to $100,000 yearly (CDN) or $20,000,000 Guyana dollars.
I know Guyana is not Canada but I believe all our qualified teachers should get an immediate 25 percent increase in their salaries after the first budget is presented by the AFC. For the next three years they should get 25percent increases also, so by the end of the first four years of an AFC government teachers would have gotten a 100 percent increase in salaries. Of course other public sector workers will want to make similar demands but the new government should sit down and discuss with their unions a long term vision whereby their salaries too would be elevated along similar lines. This will be possible with better governance, greater accountability, and savings from the absence or drastic reduction of corruption.
Again I stress Guyana is not Canada but that does not mean we cannot pay our people a wage that would make them more productive, patriotic, happy and contented. A new AFC government should make education the cornerstone of their plan to make this country the Singapore of the Caribbean. They can start that blue print for the future with a 100 percent increase in salary for all qualified teachers.
Clyde Pestano
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