PHILIPSBURG:--- The Board of the Windward Islands Teachers Union (WITU) and the Board of the Anguilla Teachers Union (ATU) have joined forces and will be hosting the Caribbean Union of Teachers (CUT) Executive Meeting on December 5 at Maho Resort in St. Maarten and on December 6, 2013 in The Valley, Anguilla.
You are cordially invited to the opening at 9:00am on December 5, at Maho Resort.
The Caribbean Union of Teachers is over 75 years old. The CUT views teachers as an integral part of the working people who constitute the majority of Caribbean society. As such, it recognizes the need for teachers and teachers' organizations. It further recognizes teachers as professionals who must work relentlessly to improve professional standards and who must show commitment to students, community and education.
In 1999, the CUT and Education International (EI) entered into an agreement, under which the CUT became an autonomous body within the structure of EI. The CUT is thus the recognized representative body for teachers in the Caribbean. Both organizations have collaborated on a number of programmes and projects in the region which have benefited teachers and their representative organizations.
The CUT is one of the finest examples of regional integration in the Caribbean. It has managed to harness the collective wisdom from a membership that extends from Bermuda in the north to Suriname in the south and Belize in the west. The CUT has been striving to create a united voice on teachers' issues across the Caribbean.
Teachers' unions/organizations from the following countries are members of CUT:
- Anguilla
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Bahamas
- Barbados
- Belize
- Bermuda
- British Virgin Islands
- Dominica
- Grenada
- Guadeloupe
- Guyana
- Haiti
- Jamaica
- Martinique
- Montserrat
- Nevis
- St. Croix
- St. Kitts
- St. Lucia
- St. Vincent and the Grenadines
- Suriname
- Trinidad and Tobago
- St. Maarten