IN JAMAICA: More Than 200 Teachers Relocated - Thwaites

Education Minister Ronald Thwaites has indicated that some 200 teachers have already been redeployed as part of the ministry's thrust to save some $223 million over the next two years.

Thwaites said the relocation process has been going according to plan and that the ministry will be pressing ahead with more redeployment throughout the school year.

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A disgruntled Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA) is taking issue with how the process has been handled so far.

In an advertisement published in The Sunday Gleaner, the JTA expressed that it has been receiving reports that "teachers are being coerced into accepting to be transferred to other schools and in some cases threatened with loss of salary if they refuse to participate". read more