After day long meeting with government, striking teachers of the Monrovia consolidated school system (MCSS) have finally agreed to resume work on Thursday October 17, 2019.
According the president of the Monrovia consolidated school system, Veto Garway, the teachers have resolved to go back to their respective assigned work places based on an agreement with the government that as of October 16, 2019, they will start to receive their salary.
The meeting which saw the attendance of several senior officials of government, including Ministers Nathaniel McGill, Samuel Tweah, Musa Dean, was held on the campus of the William V. S. Tubman High School in Sinkor.
Ministers McGill and Tweah informed the teachers that the government was doing everything possible to solve some of the issues at the level of the Ministry of Education and other governmental ministries and agencies about the delay in salary.
Students protest
Students protest in Monrovia Tuesday left several school-going children hospitalized, as riot police officers accused of using force to disperse the students.
According to LPR reporter who covered the protest Tuesday, the angry students blocked the road opposite the Ministry of Foreign Affairs that housed the office of the present, causing serious vehicular traffic. Movements of goods and services were stalled on Tuesday’s morning due to the protest.
Our reporter added that attempts by the protesters to disallow President Weah’s motorcade entry to the premises of the Foreign Affairs Ministry was met by stiff resistance from the police, as the police applied force to have the gathering of protesting students dispersed.
The students’ protest was triggered a failure of the government of Liberia to settle three month arrears of public school teachers who began go-slow action Monday October 14, 2019.
