Govt to award VPs and 27 Ministers 100%+ salary increases

With these fabulous increases, there will be no need for thieving Ministers.

If true a very bad move. Ordinary civil servants deserve an increase.  Not so ministers and MPs, especially when the govt is complaining about the poor financial state that the PPP left the country in.

This is why the PPP needs to stop sulking and whining, and act like a responsible opposition party.

The raping of Guyana continues.  Looks like this is going to be a one-term government.  These people are paying themselves super salaries in a donkey cart economy.  What a shame.

THOSE DOGS AND THE ONES ON GNI DONT HAVE ANY SHAME. THE DICTATORSHIP OF THE PNC AND THE TWO HOUSE SLAVES TOOK GUYANA BACK 100 YEARS IN LESS THAN 100 DAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Really, you will see, even millionaires find reason to steal.  What was needed was not exorbitant salary increases but a front loaded and lucrative deferred comp with reasonable vesting conditional on the execution of their responsibilities clear of bribery and corruption.  There should always be attractive value at risk for improper acts.  Any conviction in a court of law would encumber this asset.

I am just amazed and astounded that these folks are so stupid to raid the treasury, even as they condemned the PPP for doing this.

They are hedging on giving the civil servants, who earn US$200, a salary increase, and yet want to provide more to people whose total remuneration will not be a disgrace in other parts of the Caribbean, as the average Guyanese wage is.

If the PPP sulks they deserve to let these people win.  As of now they should be mobilizing people to protest against this, if it is true.

This is a DISGRACE, and if true, will clearly confirm my worst fears that these are ageing people who want their spoils before they get too old.

Did Moses say anything against this, or is he joining in the fun...Mitwah what did your Lord Moses do?

This a form of theft.  They are using their power to unilaterally attribute to themselves part of the taxpayers' money.

The PPP should make the coalition look stupid by refusing this pay increase.

Sometimes I have to Laff when I read the Posts of some. People are suddenly surprise to find out the Alphabet starts with A,B,C.  Bloody Dumb Ass!!!!!!!!!!

Listen, as Crum-Ewing rightly said, the PNC just wanted to get their hands in the cookie jar.  Imagine, new positions got huge starting salaries, this is 100% added costs in addition to the large increases in existing positions.  The average worker will suck wind when inflation eats up their little raises and the poor will be left to eat grass.

I tell you, Guyana headed for another economic collapse.

I have to give you credit, you are more objective than I thought and a high degree of value on equity ans fairness.  On this count, baseman and you coincide.  These latest position you took has caused me to step back and reevaluate my assessment of you.

i agree wholeheartedly with such an increase . . . i am on record here consistently recommending this

it is NOT corrupt! it will likely discourage (not eliminate) corruption

however, the timing (if true) and the PR is monstrously tone deaf . . . budget 2016 after LGE would have been smarter

who are the idiots advising the president?

It was not corrupt too when Jagdeo give away Sanata and govt contracts to his buddy Ramroop.

You simply cannot have super salary in a donkey cart economy.  It is bare faced thieving.

I would agree with the overall comp package but with a sizable component deferred and create "value at risk".  It does not matter how much you make, your lifestyle settles at that level, then the temptation returns when some additional need arises for which you never planned or you wish to go even higher beyond your means, a normal human attribute/weakness.

They have announced these big increases just after representing that the "Rudisa" tax loss will create budgetary stress.  How barefaced and dishonest.

is that a serious response? . . . or u seriously into comedy this weekend

I can raise no argument with you. How can they campaign on PPP corruption, and then engage in those wholesale raid of the cookie jar.  They will claim that it is legal, but guess what, if they control the process to pay themselves, then maybe its just another form of corruption.

Winston Jordan has enough time to withdraw this, and claim t6hat it is a "misunderstanding".

Many Donkeys were braying before May 11 that LGE, FIA, VAT, PAT AND CAT will be priority!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Bloody IDIOTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Legality and morality are not the same.

If people want to steal they will steal.  At a time when the economy is shaky, with issues in sugar, rice and gold, in addition to the ongoing bauxite saga, and at a time when they claim that the PPP was involved in massive theft and waste, how can they pay themselves a hefty 70% increase?  In what planet can this be excused?

This is on top of a bloated administration, with 29 ministers.  Some like Felix, and Ally, clearly being rewarded for being "loyal party people".

At best they should get the same 10% that the civil servants get.

'Just because one might have supported APNU/AFC doesn't mean that we should endorse their "mistakes".

Yes it is serious.   It is just another form of "legal thieving." 

You will have noted that I have always been sharply critical of the PPP, AFC, and APNU.  In fact earning the ire of some coalition supporters.

Wrong is wrong!  And not only is this wrong, but it is stupid. Expect the PPP to make some gains when the LGE comes later this year, if they go through with this.

This is exactly why I cautioned many coalition supporters, when they engaged in stupidity like claiming that corruption will end.  These are mere politicians and are doing what these types do. 

This is the time when Guyanese must remember what Ulele told them.  If APNU/AFC do wrong HOLD THEM TO ACCOUNT.

wtf are u talking about?

i am not part of you and baseman dem consensus about "mistakes"

i advocated the significant raising of ministerial and equivalent salaries long, long before 5/11

focus

The 12 Junior Ministers will each earn $700,000 monthly and like senior Ministers will be entitled to the $500,000 benefits. Therefore all the ministers- all 27 of them will also receive a duty allowance, an entertainment allowance, $45,000, housing allowance; chauffeur allowance of over $100,000 and annual vacation allowance of $420,000.

The APNU and AFC, when in Opposition, had vigorously spoken out against the “abuse” of taxpayers’ money to fill the pockets of the “greedy” government officials

The APNU and AFC, when in Opposition, had vigorously spoken out against the “abuse” of taxpayers’ money to fill the pockets of the “greedy” government officials

Now we are seeing the APNU/AFC as the "greedy government officials"

Can Guyana afford such extravagance?

Since I was with the AFC back in 2011 I was a proponent of the deferred comp and other benefits model.  The PNC is into "instant gratification", but as we all know, such have a short half-life.

Don't worry.  As the economy slows, with a reduction not only in gold prices, but also in production, this hitting a significant part of the PNC base, expect the PPP to recover in the LGE as many PNC supporters stay home in disgust.  Many will say that this is exactly why they usually don't vote.

This is Granger and his ageing cronies trying to snatch as much as they can while they have the opportunity to do so.  They should have waited until they delivered on their promises, but their greed and arrogance leads them to hold Guyanese in utter contempt.  But when we see how Granger handles the PNC, why are we shocked?

klowning deserves no rebuttal

carry on

Bai, you and baseman more alike than we care to admit, except sometimes we shout from different banks of the river of Jordan.  This is them bais last "erection" so the going in without any conscience.

Ad he sits down in NYC, sheltered from a slowing economy he can engage in his usual theoretical fantasies.

But think of people who are seeing their incomes dwindle as their earnings from gold decline, and watch how they respond when they hear the big ones, the same ones who promised to rescue Guyana from PPP corruption, just increased their salary to US $!00k, in a land where the average person barely makes US$2,000.  And then get other perks on top of that.

sure bai . . . a lil salary increase is now "going in without any conscience" nuh?

fascinating 'perspective' without reference points, especially when we cotemplate the Jagdeoite takings this past decade and a half

uh huh . . .

It will be the last, before total impotency sets in, and there will be no Viagra to rescue them.

Now this is the time for the PPP to quit sulking and to inform Guyanese about what the APNU/AFC is doing. They should compare the salaries of the President and PM with the equivalent people in T&T and Barbados, nations considerably wealthier than Guyana.

If the PPP does this, then APNU can no longer complain of PPP corruption, because they are proving themselves to be no better.

If they had done good work in raising the economy, creating more jobs, and overseeing a higher quality of service provided by the gov't then this might be in order.

But they have done nothing, as it impacts the average person, and now THIS.

I only hope that this is a Guyana Times lie, and that Jordan comes out and says that no such thing is being planned.

I bet you all the cops and nurses and teachers wished that they could get a 75% pay increase.  THEY are the ones who must subsist on wages so low, that they are too embarrassed to tell their Bajan friends how much they make. 

I am sure that a Bajan will be impressed with Nagamootoo's US$100k BASE salary, and definitely with Granger's.

Lets hope, as it will be a great disappointment and in just 100 days. Who knows what 100 months bring.

Of course if the first thing that these people do is give themselves 75% more, maybe they will think that they can engage in Jagdeoite corruption, to the cheers of sycophants like you.

They clearly like their wallets, that much we know.

Greed is an equal opportunity infector!!

the Bajan PM base salary in 2011-2012 was $US100k

what's your point?

Who knows, maybe out of this will come a true credible nationalist 3rd party uniting the people and bringing responsible government.  I thought this was the AFC back in 2011 and after interacting with them, I realize these were PPP rejects seeking revenge and their "day in the sun".  The lack of intellectual honesty and anti-PPP anger was so palpable, gave an uncomfortable feeling of what they would actually do should they gain power.  I could not reconcile with this mindset.

Baseman was ridiculed, cussed and lots of lies spread to discredit/discourage and shut me up.  Baseman will prove to be correct in his assessment.  However, I must say, HE Granger has [thus far] been my biggest disappointment, if this turns out to be true.

What's the per-capita GDP of Bbdos vs Guyana?

says the bigot crocodile with a wink as he wipes his mouth carna

lol

why do you ask?