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Public servants hoping for a bonus this Christmas will be left disappointed, as Finance Minister Winston Jordan on Friday ruled out any bonus pay-out to State workers due to limited fiscal space.
In his revelation to the media, Jordan explained that countrywide infrastructure projects are ongoing. As such, he argued that because of these projects, money is

Finance Minister Winston Jordan

being circulated back into the economy.
“I can tell you that it will not happen this year,” the Minister said when asked about bonus for public servants. “The challenges are many and the resources are few.”
In the absence of a bonus, Jordan explained that public servants still had much to be proud of as he pointed to the ongoing projects such as on the East Coast of Demerara (ECD) and the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) expansion project.
“The West Demerara road is close to completion. So there has been a hive of activity across the country. A lot of spending is taking place, so if only because of that, people should be happy because a lot of money is being injected into the economy,” Jordan said.
Last year, public servants had waited with bated breath to hear if Government would announce a month tax-free bonus but were instead treated to a reduced amount.
He later told reporters last year that Government simply did not have the monies available to make the one-month tax-free payment to members of the public service.
Speaking to public administration and public financial management during his presentation of the 2017 National Estimates (Budget), Finance Minister Jordan had said “this Administration has inherited a national crisis of institutional lethargy and ineptitude (in the public service).”
The Minister in providing some insight on Government’s proposal to reform the public service through its public servants, pointed to comprehensive institutionalisation of the tenets of results-based management. He pointed too to the recently opened public service college and its role in revitalising workers.

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I say everyone in Guyana should try to get a minister job. There is lots of money available for those. 

Jordan like to talk big but embarrassingly usually has very little to show. Plus he likes to talk down to the Guyanese workers. What a schmuck.

FM

'A lot of spending is taking place, so if only because of that, people should be happy because a lot of money is being injected into the economy,” Jordan said.'  This is the most assine statement I have heard in a while.

alena06

Green collected MILLIONS, Namakaram Crabdaag wasted 100 MILLION  travelling to Families in Canada and US. The Namakaram spent 50 MILLION to renovate the residence, Dem built stadium for victory Party worth 100 MILLION which is now rotting. Dem like one of meh neigha in meh village, he does spent like King Friday to Sunday and Monday morning he nah gat passage to go to wuk.

Nehru
ksazma posted:

I say everyone in Guyana should try to get a minister job. There is lots of money available for those. 

Jordan like to talk big but embarrassingly usually has very little to show. Plus he likes to talk down to the Guyanese workers. What a schmuck.

Give Jordan a chance.  He is busy looking for that $US 20 million.  Remember he said he will check and see if Exxon give them the money.  

Bibi Haniffa

APNU+AFC government has no money for public servants' Christmas bonus. APNU+AFC M&CC rarely pays city council workers on time. Even as press reports show that top central and local government officials spend $$$millions for overseas travel, residence and vehicle upgrades etc. Plus massive expenditure for new and improved ministry administrative buildings. Not forgetting that state-owned GuySuco workers haven't received even a token $1 Christmas bonus since 2014. Merry Christmas, workers of Guyana!

FM
RiffRaff posted:

they people need a lesson in economics...a lil bonus increases economic activity...people spend more, workers make more...state coffers benefit from the increased activity

GRA benefits from increased VAT collection too.

FM
RiffRaff posted:

they people need a lesson in economics...a lil bonus increases economic activity...people spend more, workers make more...state coffers benefit from the increased activity

Not to mentioned the intangible benefit of happy workers. 

FM
Gilbakka posted:

APNU+AFC government has no money for public servants' Christmas bonus. APNU+AFC M&CC rarely pays city council workers on time. Even as press reports show that top central and local government officials spend $$$millions for overseas travel, residence and vehicle upgrades etc. Plus massive expenditure for new and improved ministry administrative buildings. Not forgetting that state-owned GuySuco workers haven't received even a token $1 Christmas bonus since 2014. Merry Christmas, workers of Guyana!

That is how PNC operates. I remember back in the '80s when folks virtually renting rooms in other peoples' houses were driving newly refurbished cars given to them by the PNC government. Eventually they would be able to move as they accumulated their bribes. 

FM

Bharat Jagdeo use to share  out the taxpayers money to (the PNC/APNU voters) those in the Public Service and the Security Services knowing very well that they were corrupted and took bribes from those they were expected to serve. But the PPP gave no bonuses to the poor people. So It is good that they in the Public and Security Sectors are getting nothing this time, courtesy of the government they voted for.

FM
Dondadda posted:

Bharat Jagdeo use to share  out the taxpayers money to (the PNC/APNU voters) those in the Public Service and the Security Services knowing very well that they were corrupted and took bribes from those they were expected to serve. But the PPP gave no bonuses to the poor people. So It is good that they in the Public and Security Sectors are getting nothing this time, courtesy of the government they voted for.

This goes to show that "sorry for maga dwag and maga dwag turn around and bite yuh".  I don't believe Jaggy or Ramoutar got any Afro votes from pandering to them via patronizing bonuses. 

FM
Drugb posted:
Dondadda posted:

Bharat Jagdeo use to share  out the taxpayers money to (the PNC/APNU voters) those in the Public Service and the Security Services knowing very well that they were corrupted and took bribes from those they were expected to serve. But the PPP gave no bonuses to the poor people. So It is good that they in the Public and Security Sectors are getting nothing this time, courtesy of the government they voted for.

This goes to show that "sorry for maga dwag and maga dwag turn around and bite yuh".  I don't believe Jaggy or Ramoutar got any Afro votes from pandering to them via patronizing bonuses. 

I have to agree. Blacks in Guyana are clannish. They got a good dose from the PNC. More hardship is yet to come but they will endure it as they did for 28 years of dictatorship rule.

FM
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yuji22 posted:
Drugb posted:
Dondadda posted:

Bharat Jagdeo use to share  out the taxpayers money to (the PNC/APNU voters) those in the Public Service and the Security Services knowing very well that they were corrupted and took bribes from those they were expected to serve. But the PPP gave no bonuses to the poor people. So It is good that they in the Public and Security Sectors are getting nothing this time, courtesy of the government they voted for.

This goes to show that "sorry for maga dwag and maga dwag turn around and bite yuh".  I don't believe Jaggy or Ramoutar got any Afro votes from pandering to them via patronizing bonuses. 

I have to agree.Blacks in Guyana are clannish. They got a good dose from the PNC. More hardship is yet to come but they will endure it as they did for 28 years of dictatorship rule.

Huh...since when ?

Django
Django posted:
yuji22 posted:
Drugb posted:
Dondadda posted:

Bharat Jagdeo use to share  out the taxpayers money to (the PNC/APNU voters) those in the Public Service and the Security Services knowing very well that they were corrupted and took bribes from those they were expected to serve. But the PPP gave no bonuses to the poor people. So It is good that they in the Public and Security Sectors are getting nothing this time, courtesy of the government they voted for.

This goes to show that "sorry for maga dwag and maga dwag turn around and bite yuh".  I don't believe Jaggy or Ramoutar got any Afro votes from pandering to them via patronizing bonuses. 

I have to agree.Blacks in Guyana are clannish. They got a good dose from the PNC. More hardship is yet to come but they will endure it as they did for 28 years of dictatorship rule.

Huh...since when ?

You sound like the racist Carib. Blacks in Guyana vote 98 Percent PNC. Do you need more evidence ? We must have ball* to call as spade a spade.

FM
yuji22 posted:
Django posted:
yuji22 posted:
 

I have to agree.Blacks in Guyana are clannish. They got a good dose from the PNC. More hardship is yet to come but they will endure it as they did for 28 years of dictatorship rule.

Huh...since when ?

You sound like the racist Carib. Blacks in Guyana vote 98 Percent PNC. Do you need more evidence ? We must have ball* to call as spade a spade.

I asked a question and in your eyes i am racist,"Ironic"

Would you mind tell how East Indians vote in Guyana.

Django
Django posted:
yuji22 posted:
Django posted:
yuji22 posted:
 

I have to agree.Blacks in Guyana are clannish. They got a good dose from the PNC. More hardship is yet to come but they will endure it as they did for 28 years of dictatorship rule.

Huh...since when ?

You sound like the racist Carib. Blacks in Guyana vote 98 Percent PNC. Do you need more evidence ? We must have ball* to call as spade a spade.

I asked a question and in your eyes i am racist,"Ironic"

Would you mind tell how East Indians vote in Guyana.

That's a different story. Indos split their votes. Man, you are very slow.

BTW, I did not call you a racist. I said that you sounded like Carib. 

You are pro PNC and not racist as much as I am Pro PPP and not racist.

GNI's AFC/PNC crew have a very bad habit of labelling Pro PPP/Indo supporters as racist and honouring Racist PNC supporters as freedom fighters. There is a difference.

FM
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yuji22 posted:
Django posted:
yuji22 posted:
Django posted:
yuji22 posted:
 

I have to agree.Blacks in Guyana are clannish. They got a good dose from the PNC. More hardship is yet to come but they will endure it as they did for 28 years of dictatorship rule.

Huh...since when ?

You sound like the racist Carib. Blacks in Guyana vote 98 Percent PNC. Do you need more evidence ? We must have ball* to call as spade a spade.

I asked a question and in your eyes i am racist,"Ironic"

Would you mind tell how East Indians vote in Guyana.

That's a different story. Indos split their votes. Man, you are very slow.

BTW, I did not call you a racist. I said that you sounded like Carib. 

You are pro PNC and not racist as much as I am Pro PPP and not racist.

GNI's AFC/PNC crew have a very bad habit of labelling Pro PPP/Indo supporters as racist and honouring Racist PNC supporters as freedom fighters. There is a difference.

So where the votes comes from for the PPP to win ?

just for a refresher,what's the percentage of East Indian votes doesn't go to the PPP.

Since when race based voting are termed "clannish" look up the meaning of the word.

Django
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Django posted:
yuji22 posted:
Django posted:
yuji22 posted:
 

I have to agree.Blacks in Guyana are clannish. They got a good dose from the PNC. More hardship is yet to come but they will endure it as they did for 28 years of dictatorship rule.

Huh...since when ?

You sound like the racist Carib. Blacks in Guyana vote 98 Percent PNC. Do you need more evidence ? We must have ball* to call as spade a spade.

I asked a question and in your eyes i am racist,"Ironic"

Would you mind tell how East Indians vote in Guyana.

They vote for the party that fields candidates who are largely business-oriented and will therefore, in all probability, work for and in the interest of the country as a whole ! 

K
Keffer posted:
Django posted:
yuji22 posted:
Django posted:
yuji22 posted:
 

I have to agree.Blacks in Guyana are clannish. They got a good dose from the PNC. More hardship is yet to come but they will endure it as they did for 28 years of dictatorship rule.

Huh...since when ?

You sound like the racist Carib. Blacks in Guyana vote 98 Percent PNC. Do you need more evidence ? We must have ball* to call as spade a spade.

I asked a question and in your eyes i am racist,"Ironic"

Would you mind tell how East Indians vote in Guyana.

They vote for the party that fields candidates who are largely business-oriented and will therefore, in all probability, work for and in the interest of the country as a whole ! 

Thanks for the response Keff,

from what i gathered majority of East Indians vote PPP,from your post one can assume "the new PPP" changed course from a Workers Party to more business oriented party. For clarification is that so ?

Django
Last edited by Django
Django posted:
yuji22 posted:
 

Blacks in Guyana are clannish.

Huh...since when ?

I think there is some validity to this. I mentioned to Carib that whether correct or not, Indians would give as reasons for supporting the PPP that the PPP are good at governing, grow the economy, etc. They give a valid reason. So I asked him why blacks support the PNC and I don't think he has answered me. Just supporting a party without any reason may be clannish.

FM
Django posted:
Keffer posted:
Django posted:
yuji22 posted:
Django posted:
yuji22 posted:
 

I have to agree.Blacks in Guyana are clannish. They got a good dose from the PNC. More hardship is yet to come but they will endure it as they did for 28 years of dictatorship rule.

Huh...since when ?

You sound like the racist Carib. Blacks in Guyana vote 98 Percent PNC. Do you need more evidence ? We must have ball* to call as spade a spade.

I asked a question and in your eyes i am racist,"Ironic"

Would you mind tell how East Indians vote in Guyana.

They vote for the party that fields candidates who are largely business-oriented and will therefore, in all probability, work for and in the interest of the country as a whole ! 

Thanks for the response Keff,

from what i gathered majority of East Indians vote PPP,from your post one can assume "the new PPP" changed course from a Workers Party to more business oriented party. For clarification is that so ?

Django, I cannot/will not categorically state that the PPP has changed its philosophical posture because I have neither seen, read nor heard anything that suggests that. I believe, however, that it is fair to say that 1) the political landscape of the country is undoubtedly etched out along ethnic lines and 2) commerce remains ostensibly in the hands of East Indians. Given the distinctly dismal economic track record of the PNC, particularly during the Burnham years, I believe there is a widely held perception among entrepreneurs that the PPP, as they did in the past, will continue to foster an atmosphere that is far more conducive to commerce than any other political party. 

K
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alena06 posted:

Public servants hoping for a bonus this Christmas will be left disappointed, as Finance Minister Winston Jordan on Friday ruled out any bonus pay-out to State workers due to limited fiscal space.
In his revelation to the media, Jordan explained that countrywide infrastructure projects are ongoing. As such, he argued that because of these projects, money is

Finance Minister Winston Jordan

being circulated back into the economy.
“I can tell you that it will not happen this year,” the Minister said when asked about bonus for public servants. “The challenges are many and the resources are few.”
In the absence of a bonus, Jordan explained that public servants still had much to be proud of as he pointed to the ongoing projects such as on the East Coast of Demerara (ECD) and the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) expansion project.
“The West Demerara road is close to completion. So there has been a hive of activity across the country. A lot of spending is taking place, so if only because of that, people should be happy because a lot of money is being injected into the economy,” Jordan said.
Last year, public servants had waited with bated breath to hear if Government would announce a month tax-free bonus but were instead treated to a reduced amount.
He later told reporters last year that Government simply did not have the monies available to make the one-month tax-free payment to members of the public service.
Speaking to public administration and public financial management during his presentation of the 2017 National Estimates (Budget), Finance Minister Jordan had said “this Administration has inherited a national crisis of institutional lethargy and ineptitude (in the public service).”
The Minister in providing some insight on Government’s proposal to reform the public service through its public servants, pointed to comprehensive institutionalisation of the tenets of results-based management. He pointed too to the recently opened public service college and its role in revitalising workers.

You mean there will be no jump up and wine up ? Oh Lawd .....a lot of their supporters will be sorely disappointed !

K

These chaps in the PNC are a bunch of dunces. Christmas bonuses would have increased economy activities and tax revenues collected as a result the spending would have assisted a sluggish economy.

PNC will never change, they aways run a donkey cart economy.

FM
Django posted:
yuji22 posted:
Drugb posted:
Dondadda posted:

Bharat Jagdeo use to share  out the taxpayers money to (the PNC/APNU voters) those in the Public Service and the Security Services knowing very well that they were corrupted and took bribes from those they were expected to serve. But the PPP gave no bonuses to the poor people. So It is good that they in the Public and Security Sectors are getting nothing this time, courtesy of the government they voted for.

This goes to show that "sorry for maga dwag and maga dwag turn around and bite yuh".  I don't believe Jaggy or Ramoutar got any Afro votes from pandering to them via patronizing bonuses. 

I have to agree.Blacks in Guyana are clannish. They got a good dose from the PNC. More hardship is yet to come but they will endure it as they did for 28 years of dictatorship rule.

Huh...since when ?

Bai Django, you are the exception.

FM
skeldon_man posted:

They are waiting on the oil money. Harro boy should bring out the $25 mil and give the people a Merry Crissmuss.
Are we seeing the beginning of an "empty treasury" again?

Of course; that is a typical component of PNC modus operandi .... and it is all the fault of the PPP !

K
Nehru posted:
RiffRaff posted:

Prashad &Keffer

Don't start nonsense again

Man leave dem nah, Bill Maher done for the year so I need them.

if I wasn't one ah the admins, I would leave them

FM
alena06 posted:

No Crismuss bonus for Public Servants, abee use up the money on infrastructure projects..haha

Public servants hoping for a bonus this Christmas will be left disappointed, as Finance Minister Winston Jordan on Friday ruled out any bonus pay-out to State workers due to limited fiscal space.

Bonus ...

Looks like Granger, Jordan, etc., are giving out huge "bone ass" this year.

FM
Prashad posted:

This old goat Keffer should find himself a young woman and pump out a few kids to increase the declining Guyana East Indian numbers instead of wasting his time talking stupidness 

We are all so sorry that you cannot do that because the fumes from toilets have left you permanently flaccid and impotent ! Isn't that so, Gadha ?

K
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Keffer posted:
Prashad posted:

This old goat Keffer should find himself a young woman and pump out a few kids to increase the declining Guyana East Indian numbers instead of wasting his time talking stupidness 

We are all so sorry that you cannot do that because the fumes from toilets have left you permanently flaccid and impotent ! Isn't that so, Gadha ?

You two fellas are like Battie and Poe, stop this nonsense and get off this post.  Start your own thread to abuse each other, maybe find another site, such as "Man abuse Man."

K

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