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No different % wage increase for gov’t VIPs – iNews Poll

August 16, 2015 12:29 pm Category: latest news A+ / A-

 

The David Granger led administration.

The David Granger led administration.

 

[www.inewsguyana.com]

Government officials should not be given a wage increase which differs from that of the ordinary public servant, says the majority of persons in an iNews Poll.

The results of the poll show that 83% of respondents do not believe that government officials such as Ministers, Vice Presidents and Presidential Advisors should be given any different increase.

A minor 14.5% of the respondents however believed that the salary increases should differ while 2.5% of the respondents are undecided on the issue.

Minister of Governance, Raphael Trotman had pacified rumours that the APNU+AFC administration will be taking immediate steps to increase the salaries of its officials.

Early August, news broke that the new government, after 12 weeks in office, would be looking to increase the salaries of Ministers, Parliamentarians and Presidential Advisors.

Trotman at a post cabinet media briefing on August 05, however made it clear that while the salaries are currently being reviewed, it will not be implemented any time soon.

In fact, Trotman told reporters that that government has noted with some amount of “amusement” the 100% hike in salaries being quoted in some sections of the media.

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