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Oct 17, 2008 News
After assuring Carifesta X staff and participants that they would be paid this week, some Government officials now appear to have no idea when the estimated $200M will be disbursed.
Carifesta Secretariat staffers have not been paid for two months and many of them are beginning to vent their annoyance at the conflicting answers they are receiving.
According to the staffers, an official in the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport had assured them that they would have been paid this week.
“But on Tuesday, he said that things didn’t look good, then on Wednesday, he said that things looked okay, then now he’s saying that he has no idea when we will be paid,” one frustrated staffer told Kaieteur News.
According to another source, many of the participants had expressed strong reservations, which now appear to be justified, when they were approached to take part in Carifesta X.
Contacted yesterday, Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Culture,Youth and Sport Colonel Ross also told Kaieteur News that he had no idea when the payments will be made. He declined to comment further.
Last week, the Carifesta Secretariat’s Chief Executive Officer Nigel Dharamlall had assured that all the Secretariat’s accounts would have been settled ‘shortly’, but gave no deadline.
He had blamed the delay on the fact that there were a large number of participants and the fact that all payments had to be verified.
Dharamlall made the remarks after two Carifesta participants staged a picketing exercise outside the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport to protest the delay.
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