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AFC to call on PM to list names, salaries of President’s advisors

Mar 10, 2010 News

Alliance For Change Vice Chairperson Sheila Holder will this Thursday seek to have the Prime Minister Samuel Hinds list for the National Assembly, the names and salaries of all of the advisors for head of state President Bharrat Jagdeo.
At the Office of the President under the Presidential Advisory (Cabinet and other services) there are 81 employees who are contracted and share wages and salaries amounting to some $220M.
The remaining 56 employees are paid out of an allocation of $24.8M
There are no staffers in the description of staffing details under administrative and senior technical, meaning that whoever functions in those designations are contracted.
During the budget debates, the salaries of scores of employees and their designations especially those on contracts were excessively scrutinized, but never has there been a call for the names of those employees in correlation with their salaries.
Holder, when contacted by this newspaper as to what prompted the proposed question for the Prime Minister, said that it was about transparency.
She said that it is a known fact that the President has a plethora of advisors and her party would just like to clarify what their remuneration was.
Holder said that recently there have been high levels of speculation in the public domain as it relates to the remuneration of President Jagdeo’s advisors and she would just like to clarify.

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