And here is you initial question least you forgot:

"please indicate what %age increase on Jagdeo's remuneration this reflects?"

What is Jagdeo's remuneration brite bai?  Stop smoking crack it will help!

looking for a do-over, eh?

my mercy rule is invoked just cause you're so pathetic

now, what other than increase in presidential remuneration could i be talking bout bai?

after all, the comparison was with Granger's presidential salary . . . apples with apples, rite?

u see, you were prancing around making cheap PPP propaganda and got caught in your own snare . . . realizing that an honest answer wouldn't really advance alyuh narrative in the desired direction

alyuh funny no rass

Hmmmm.  ABC nations don't give two shits about Guyana, and can easily ignore our plight, given that we are of no importance to any one.

Maduro has 11 of the 14 independent CARICOM nations around their balls, because they owe him millions.  In addition he has provided millions of dollars in GRANTS to some CARICOM nations to solve certain social problems which they have.  In fact when Maduro went ti St Kitts a Guyanese living there protested against him, and the police told her to get lost, or better yet, go back to Guyana and protest there.

So continue to think that Granger doesn't need to make this a priority.  Thanks to him the UN SG is visiting Guyana tomorrow, and that sends as clear a message to Maduro as any.

Maybe we should have followed Jagdeo's advice and that is to beg for forgiveness for telling the world that the piece of nonsense that Maduro is doing isn't acceptable.

So if the PPP wins the G/T mayoralty and seizes control of the City Council, you aren't going to cry.

Because this is a SLAP in the face to the mainly PNC supporters.

How come ministers get 50% pay increases, when APNU offers the impoverished workers the SAME 5% which they told the PPP was UNACCEPTABLE.

Is it that they think that ordinary cops, nurses and teachers are MORE honest than APNU/AFC ministers, so don't have to be compensated to prevent them from "tiefing all over the place".

You do APNU/AFC no good service by being a blind supporter of theirs. If a 5% pay increase for civil servants was unacceptable under the PPP, then it is unacceptable today. If APNu/AFC cannot afford to pay impoverished, and yet very important workers (teachers, nurses and cops) more than they cannot afford to increase the ministers' salaries by 50%.

A more conscionable gov't would have paid the workers 5% in good faith, announced that the ministers will not get any pay increase, and then focus in improving gov't revenues.

Look how APNU/AFC will be made to look silly by the PPP, if the PPP is smart enough to refuse their pay increase.

bannuh, where do u get the idiot idea that i am a "blind supporter" of  the Gov't on this matter?

are u so constipated that u cannot grasp the subtlety of my takedown of VVP on this thread?

did u take time out to read my GNI postings on the pay raise before u brayed?

and please enlighten, if the Black citizens of Georgetown are stupid enough to vote for a racist Jagdeo in LGE, why i would "cry"

u are a rale Don Quixote/Sancho Panza rolled into one

Heard a good one yesterday in the car in Essequibo. Workers thought they were getting big change , but the government ministers get the big change and the workers get lil change.

What was Jagdeo's Salary, Anil's and Sam Hinds when the PPP was in power?

Too much to be sustained by a beggar country that always runs a budget deficit.  They and the current corp are living off of future generations like vultures.

Just when I started to respect your views you had to make a dumb statement in the bold above.  Do you really think the visit by a UN OFFICIAL is to send a message to Maduro?  And do you think he transit in Guyana because of GRANGER?

In case you are not aware, the budget DEFICIT for 2014 was US$240 MILLION; the budget DEFICIT for 2015 is US$175 MILLION; most likely the actuals will be far worse because they always screw with the revenue side of the budget.

The black citizens of G/T can stay home, as they did in 2006, thinking that it doesn't matter which gov't is in power, and therefore deciding that standing in the hot sun or the rain, waiting to vote, makes no sense.

And as you endorse APNU/AFC forcing down the same 5% pay increase as did the PPP, and then talking a FIFTY PER CENT pay increase, you must be a blind APNU/AFC supporter.  Even now many others who did support them are conveying their disgust with this.  IMHO this is LEGALLY SANCTIONED CORRUPTION!

In addition justifying or ignoring APNU/AFC actions because the PPP also was guilty of it smacks the faces of those who wanted the end of the PPP regime because of their corrupt behavior.

Do you really think that none other than the United Nations Secretary General is not heard LOUD AND CLEAR?

Seriously.  I happen to think that Granger is a bumbling incompetent whe it comes to economic issues, and politically arrogant on top of that (50% pay increase and then offering the civil servants the SAME pay increase which the PPP did, and which the PNC rejected).

But when it comes to this Venezuela fiasco he has done as well as he can do when one considers that the demise of Guyana will adversely impact no one, so they have no reason to care.  Granger raised the issue to international levels and the visit of Ban Ki Moon will ensure that it remains visible.

Resolution of this matter is now in the hands of the UN and so VISIBLE involvement of the UN sends a message.

Probably you endorse either

1.  Granger rushing to Maduro beg forgiveness, as Jagdeo urged that he do

OR

2.  Guyana invading Venezuela.

Because aside from that I see no alternatives to what Granger did.

look klown, if the AFC/APNU Black and Indian citizens of Guyana are content to sit at home and hand the reins of government to Jagdeo and his gang, what business is it of mine?

i do not earn a salary or make a living by sufferance of the current or any Guyana Gov't, and i have no family whose career/living depends on GT political patronage

what's your stupid point!!?

The ask for this salary increase is preposterous, if not obscene. Harmon is a  ****.ing ass with a head bigger than the role he is asked to play. Had he any sense he would know the timing is not right, the shitstorm that would develop would cause them to lose credibility and that discussions of more pressing concerns would be overshadowed for weeks.

If he is speaking of supposedly quality personnel, he is the first one to be deemed below the bar. Who in the world will have any iota of respect for this fool when he framed the pay hike as something he cannot apologize for because he saw it was fitting for the work before them. Agreeable it may be so but this is not the right time.

Plus most of his people could not have gotten better jobs than as ministers because that comes with perks that anyone would do for cheaper and some of us in the diaspora with more qualifications than most in the lot and with vastly more experience would do for free.

Fire Imran Khan. He as a PR person should have anticipated this. That is also one less than quality individual that heed to be red carded. And why in the world is that waste of a person Hamilton Green given chairmanship over housing? Surely these people swallowed some brew that made them insensitive to the distrust, the apprehensions and the complete disgust even rational people have for this waste of a man. Harmon and his lot surely do not care what we think and do not anticipate the level of angst one has for these cretins of yesteryear. Howe in the world are we to be displeased with the Jagdeo lot when the infiltration of those like Hamiliton Green is in our face again? :Like the PPP these fellows do not give a f.uck about us.

Certainly fooled me by your incessant support of this gov't, even as it is determined to shoot off its own feet.

APNU/AFC made a dumb move by increasing the salaries of the ministers.  No need to justify it.  APNU/AFC are hypocrites, who condemned the PPP when a 5% wage increase was offered, and then they did WORSE than the PPP by offering the SAME wage increase, and then increasing THEIR OWN pay by 50%.

They then undermine their credibility by claiming that, unless they get this pay, they will steal.  HOW STUPID are these people?

dude, you can fantasize to your heart's content about who i am and my motivation(s) . . . that's your prerogative as much as it is the klown nehru's

what you will not be allowed to do without being lashed is to invent 'facts' allowing u to prance about this BB pretending that you are slaying dragons

develop the habit of (at least) reading carefully before succumbing to the idiot urge to tilt at windmills while braying stupidly, convinced that you are doing god's work

just a little bit of advice . . . i suspect u want to be taken seriously

The APNU_AFC might have shot themselves in the feet with this salary increase. They have given the PPP a political gift on a platter...similar to how Mr Jagdeo has been a gift which keeps giving to opposition. These guys are already in the Guyanese 1%. The allowances are very generous. Greed is a crazy thing. I am disappointed the President who I respect greatly has not stopped this nonsense. Gillian Tett would call it the silo effect...I see it as too much delegation. Leadership is about linking up all the silos.

Another example for my book as to how people and their ignorance/greed/inclination to quarrel are more the problem for their own survival than absence of necessary resources in the environment.

Harmon will is now branded the nasty ogre and nothing from his mouth will ever overcome the awful memory residue that he is a greedy bitch. He also has an expectation of immaculate behavior with his extolling of quality as the basis this salary increase.

One does not have to investigate the contingent of ministers to assess their competency and there are a few clearly with no history of work and below clearly par. One simply as to wait for any them to stumble and remember with unusual clarity that Harmon was their validator!

This is such a mess...plainly not what is necessary now and one hopes it is not a peek into what will come.

Do you support the 50% pay increase?  Yes or No. 

No side tracking into what Jagdeo's pension is, or how mcuh he stole.

Clearly these guys were making lots of cash when they were in the opposition, and feel taht they must be compensated to support their lavish lifestyles.

They have told the population that they will get this money, one way or the other, either by being paid, or stealing.

Problem is I am already hearing rumors that one has to "pay" to get an audience with some of these guys.

I would like to see someone leak their income tax filings from previous years to see "how much they made."  

Yesterday it was reported that the government plans to table a bill that permits commercial banks to share info on clients' accounts with the Guyana Revenue Agency once the request is lawful. I suppose the reasoning behind that bill is: If GRA notices that a businessman or doctor or lawyer pays a trifle amount of tax but has a heavy bank account, GRA can prosecute for tax evasion.

What about politicians?

Salary increases should be tied to performance and inflation. In this scenario they should get a salary decrease given the poor performance of the economy and continued crime spree.

Sure, everybaddy dat GRA suspeck.

Uncle Gilly explain yourself here since I am not following you.

just wanna be clear that i am not one of those comparing (favorably or unfavorably) Guyana minister's salary to Canadian minister's salary

that would be stupid

what i did point out was the idiot lie/ludicrous assertion that a Canadian Minister's salary was approx. US$62,000/yr

FACTS are important!

Yes and ???