The country's registered nurses are again becoming agitated as they await word on when a meeting will be held with the Prime Minister to discuss a date for the payment of outstanding salaries.

The matter was discussed at an extraordinary meeting of the Nurses Association of Jamaica (NAJ) on Wednesday. According to Edith Allwood-Anderson, NAJ President, the nurses are fast losing patience with the government in settling all outstanding wage matters once and for all. "The nurses have said they will not wait indefinitely. We have exercised a lot of patience as they should have paid in March and we extended it to the end of May and the end of August, so they cannot say we are not flexible in all of this," she said.