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Saturday, July 12, 2025

Nurses still awaiting exam results

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AKASH SAMAROO
2024 days ago
20191227
The Nurses Association president is concerned that nurses can't be licensed yet because of the delay

The Nurses Association president is concerned that nurses can't be licensed yet because of the delay

GUARDIAN

Un­paid fees to the Caribbean Ex­am­i­na­tions Coun­cil (CXC) are to blame for nurs­ing stu­dents not re­ceiv­ing their re­sults for an im­por­tant ex­am they sat in Oc­to­ber.

The Re­gion­al Ex­am­i­na­tion for Nurs­ing Reg­is­tra­tion is ad­min­is­tered by CXC to schools with nurs­ing pro­grams through­out the Caribbean. This ex­am de­ter­mines who qual­i­fies to be a reg­is­tered nurse.

But while stu­dents in oth­er Caribbean is­lands got their re­sults—as sched­uled—in mid-No­vem­ber, stu­dents in Trinidad and To­ba­go are still wait­ing.

The head of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Reg­is­tered Nurs­es As­so­ci­a­tion (TTR­NA) Idi Stu­art told us, it's all down to the Nurs­ing Coun­cil not pay­ing the rel­e­vant fees to CXC.

“So each nurs­ing coun­cil in each re­gion would pay CXC for that work they do, and the in­for­ma­tion com­ing to us is that the Nurs­ing Coun­cil of Trinidad and To­ba­go has not for­ward­ed that mon­ey to CXC,” he told us. “This year there were two hic­cups. This cur­rent sit­u­a­tion with the Oc­to­ber ex­am fees not be­ing paid, and al­so ear­li­er in the year, there was a de­lay for the April ex­am re­sults, again be­cause the Nurs­ing Coun­cil failed to pay CXC on time.”

The Pres­i­dent of the Nurs­ing Coun­cil of Trinidad and To­ba­go is David Mur­phy. At­tempts were made to reach out to him but calls to his cell phone went unan­swered, at least this morn­ing.

Mean­while, Idi Stew­art warns the longer this drags on, the longer it will take for nurs­ing stu­dents to be li­censed, and work with their new qual­i­fi­ca­tions.

“Some of our col­leagues up the is­lands have al­ready start­ed work­ing,” he points out. “Every day this drags on and CXC is not paid, our nurs­es will be out of a job need­less­ly, be­cause we are in need of nurs­ing per­son­nel.”

The TTR­NA boss says once nurs­es are li­censed, they gain the abil­i­ty to prac­tise their pro­fes­sion not on­ly here in T&T and in the re­gion, but any­where in the world, since there is a glob­al short­age of nurs­ing pro­fes­sion­als.


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