BASIC ANNUAL SALARY
[A] CABINET
Prime Minister .............................. $20,580,000
3 Vice Presidents @ $11,135,064 ..... $33,405,192
11 Ministers @ $10,439,124 ...........$114,830,364
8 Junior Ministers @ $8,364,492 .......$66,915,936
Total ..... $235,731,492
[B] PRESIDENCY
President ....................
Minister J. Harmon ....... $10,439,124
Minister R. Trotman ...... $8,364,492
Minister W. Felix .............$8,364,492
Total ... $27,168,108
[A] + [B] = $262,899,600
GILBAKKA'S OBSERVATIONS:
[1] 27 coalition ministers are now paid a combined annual salary of $262,899,600 so that they won't "thief all over the place."
[2] The numbers above represent basic salary, excluding allowances.
[3] I don't know President Granger's basic salary.
[4] In other threads I notice some members are converting these numbers and comparing Guyana's ministers' salaries to Canadian ministers' salaries. How about comparing Guyanese public servants' salaries to Canadian public servants' salaries?
[5] I understand that local government elections will be held next April, after the national budget is passed in parliament. I want to believe that the coalition will give public servants, nurses, teachers, policemen etc big salary increases so they too won't have to "thief all over the place."
Overall, I think the coalition has slipped up here and there but I am hopeful that better must come before 2020.
This is comparing apples and oranges. Why dont you people compare Guyana with the rest of poor countries like those in the Caribbean? This will give us a better perspective.
However, the issue is not so much the amount...its the way the coalition has gone about doing so and the defense they mounted to justify their actions. .