GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC):

The Guyana government says it will give teachers an additional three per cent salary increase in addition to the six per cent already agreed to during negotiations with the Guyana Teachers' Union.

"We have decided to give the teachers another three per cent we have an agreement for five plus one which would be six per cent, the teachers are going to get an additional three per cent to take them up to nine per cent," President Bharrat Jagdeo told reporters.

"We are currently negotiating with the public service union. I hope those negotiations are concluded soon. If they are not concluded we are going to have to do like what we did in the other years and make a payout to the public servants," he added.