Clyde Roopchand Guyana's highest paid pensioner

Clyde Roopchand Guyana’s highest paid pensioner

Dec 15, 2009 News

A pensioner working in the Ministry of Finance is one of the highest paid public officer in Guyana. Sources now say that by offering so much money to the pensioner, the government is breaking all the rules of employment.
The pensioner, 63-year-old Clyde Roopchand, earns a salary of $1.8 million per month and an allowance of $300,000. He is also in receipt of his public service pension and gratuity.

Clyde Roopchand

The government is also paying him for 42 days annual leave each year and one month leave passage allowance; provides him with free telephone services, both landline and cellular; unlimited overseas calls, medical costing up to US$1,500 each year, duty free concessions, and security as well as domestic support.
Mr Roopchand is also entitled to every salary increase paid to public servants. He is therefore going to benefit from the recent six per cent offered public servants retroactive to January 2009. This means that his retroactive payment would be a whopping $1.3 million exclusive of the six per cent on his allowance ($216,000).