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Education Minister Fayval Williams
The Ministry of Education says 167 public sector teachers have resigned since July.
The update was provided by Education Minister Fayval Williams during a media briefing on Monday morning to address the teacher migration crisis.
The minister admitted that the resignations will impact staffing as they are so close to the start of the new school year.
Mrs Williams said the number could also increase as more information comes in from school administrators.
She said some of the resignations may be due to migration, however, no reason was given by some of the teachers who have vacated their posts.
Mrs Williams reiterated that the Education Ministry had anticipated the teacher shortage and some measures were in place to fill the vacancies.
Among the strategies to combat the issue, she said 964 recently graduated specialist teachers are available from a pool of educators who can be hired into the public education system.
The special education programme, she said, has been in place for sometime since it takes "two or three years to get teachers trained".
The minister insisted some other initiatives to address the teacher shortage are also not new and have been used "every year in the school system to ensure that we deal with any gaps in the teaching force".
But one of the new strategies the ministry will be using is to give principals pre-approval to replace teachers in clear vacancies and temporary posts.
Teachers also have the option of voluntary relocation and retired teachers may be hired part-time.
Schools may also hire university graduates without teaching certification and employ teachers in their final year of training.
Additionally, Mrs Williams said 70 Mathematics, Science and Spanish teachers will be entering the system under the bilateral agreement with Cuba.
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