Charles Ramson paid $1.2M a month as Commissioner of Information

…revised project deadline for E-Governance announced

The Guyana Government pays Senior Counsel, Charles Ramson Snr, the former Minister of Legal Affairs and Attorney General, in excess of $1.2M, as Commissioner of Information while the son of President Donald Ramotar, Alexei Ramotar is paid $650,000 a month for his post as head of the E-Governance project.

Commissioner of Information, Charles Ramson Snr

Both bits of information came from Prime Minister, Samuel Hinds, who was responding to questions posed to him by the Alliance for Change’s Catherine Hughes and A Partnership for National Unity’s Joseph Harmon, respectively.
Prime Minister, Hinds was also requested by Hughes to provide the House with the number of applications made to the Commission under the Access to Information Act and was told that no such application have been made as yet.
Asked about the staffing details of the Commission, Hinds told the House that apart from the Commissioner, only two other persons have been employed.
Government has also been footing the Bills for his telephone calls which it said is his only allowance.
Ramson was sworn in as Commissioner of Information on July 15, last year.