150 guidance counsellors to be sent home

The counsellors are different from the Guidance Officers although they carry out the same duties and according to some of the disgruntled contract workers the permanent guidance officers will now have to pick up the slack and service the entire school population which will be a big task. Counsellors work twice per week at 454 primary schools and 124 secondary schools both in Trinidad and Tobago. It remained unclear yesterday how the Ministry of Education would restructure the programme to ensure that the services of Guidance Officers be available to all schools throughout the country.

Efforts to reach Minister of Education, Anthony Garcia on the matter proved futile.