CPO maintains 5% offer for fire officers

Chief Per­son­nel Of­fi­cer Dr Daryl Din­di­al has con­firmed that the 5% of­fer on salary and Cost of Liv­ing Al­lowance, ex­tend­ed pri­or to the 2025 elec­tions, re­mains in place, de­spite calls from Fire Ser­vice As­so­ci­a­tions for a re­view of ex­ist­ing al­lowances.

The Fire Of­fi­cers’ As­so­ci­a­tion have com­mit­ted to sub­mit­ting a for­mal re­sponse on salary and CO­LA.

In a me­dia re­lease the Chief Per­son­nel Of­fi­cer said he met with ex­ec­u­tives of the 1st and 2nd Di­vi­sion Fire Ser­vice As­so­ci­a­tions to­day at the Per­son­nel De­part­ment to ad­dress con­cerns af­fect­ing Trinidad and To­ba­go fire of­fi­cers.

Rep­re­sent­ing the 2nd Di­vi­sion, Pres­i­dent Keon Guy raised is­sues in­clud­ing salary ne­go­ti­a­tions, time-off arrange­ments, and el­i­gi­bil­i­ty for the EMT al­lowance, em­pha­sis­ing the need for on­go­ing di­a­logue and time­ly res­o­lu­tions to main­tain morale and op­er­a­tional ef­fi­cien­cy with­in the Fire Ser­vice.

Com­man­der Din­di­al de­scribed the dis­cus­sions as open and re­spect­ful, al­low­ing both Di­vi­sions to clear­ly present their po­si­tions. He reaf­firmed his com­mit­ment to care­ful­ly con­sid­er­ing the mat­ters raised and to con­tin­ued en­gage­ment with the As­so­ci­a­tions.