Ministry of Education CEO says ITVET teachers’ salary issue resolved

By Zoila Palma Gonzalez: Last Friday, February 2, 2024, several educators from the Belize City ITVET did not show up for classes.

The educators were concerned since they had not been paid since September from the Ministry of Education.

Instead, they were getting paid through the school.

During an interview with News 5 Belize, CEO in the Ministry of Education Dian Maheia explained that the issue has been going on for a while and was never rectified until now.

“It took too long for their contracts to have been signed. In the interim, while the employment process was going on, the institution supported the instructors by providing them advances. We are at this stage now where we have done our best to rectify. We’ve found out where the errors were, we have found out where the omissions were. We’ve corrected those errors. We have made every effort to support the different people who are involved in this process because it’s not just a Belize City IT-VET process. It’s not just a Ministry of Education process. We have other ministries who are also involved, other units of other ministries, and they have also made every effort to be supportive so that we can correct the mistakes that have happened. Now, where we are now with this process is that they have all been added now to Smart Stream. They’ve been added to the ministries – to the Treasury’s   payroll. So they now are going to be paid automatically through the Treasury and not through the school,” Maheia explained.

However, commencing this month, the CEO says that the issue has been resolved and educators will receive their salary via the Smart Stream system.

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