TRELAWNY, Jamaica – As the mass migration of the nation’s teachers continues unabated, the Opposition People’s National Party (PNP) is calling on Government to break its silence and communicate their plan to address the issue.

Speaking at the PNP’s Trelawny Southern constituency conference at the Albert Town High School on Sunday, former Clarendon North Western Member of Parliament, Richard Azan, raised concerns that there might be an acute shortage of teachers in the classrooms when the new school year starts next month.

“In the next week or two school going open and Comrades many of the schools are going to be without teachers. The amount of the teachers leaving Jamaica and I don’t hear the Ministry of Education saying anything about it. They say some subjects they won’t have them again come September,” Azan said.

He bemoaned that “our better teachers are going away and we are not talking about it”.

“Our children are going to suffer. And we have to use this meeting tonight (Sunday) and call on the Government. We have to do something for our teachers because we have to save our country the children are our future and I don’t hear anybody talking about that in the Government,” Azan said.

Meanwhile, Councillor Dr Pauline Foster (Ulster Spring Division: People’s National Party), and Chairman for the PNP’s Area One, who recently signalled her intention to walk away from representational politics, told party supporters that Sunday might have been her last conference as an elected representative.