Politics at its worst

May 03, 2013 Letters

Dear Editor,
Rather than approve a modest 10 percent pay adjustment for thousands of working-class State employees, the Jagdeo/Ramotar cabal chose to make cheap political statement on the issue. We refer to President Donald Ramotar’s statement that “any moves by the opposition parties to cut this year’s budget would be without grounds, thus highlighting vindictiveness on their part”.
What vindictiveness is His Excellency talking about? Isn’t vindictive to increase payment to contract workers, many of whom are operatives of Freedom House, by an average of $1 billion per year since 2008, while at the same time offering the workers the same medicine of five per cent?
In 2008 the actual expense of Contract Workers was $2.4 billion; in 2012 Contract Workers got 158 per cent more from the Treasury, some $6.2 billion.
Why State workers had to satisfy themselves with a meager existence compared to the political favourites of the Jagdeo/Ramotar regime? As a reminder to ourselves this is just a subset of the list of people who earn a super salary from the PPP in 2011:
1.      Kevin Hogan (Presidential Advisor)                          – $2,531,124                 per month;
2.      Steven Grin (Presidential Advisor)                             – G$2.884,377             per month;
3.      Kapil Mohabir (Presidential Advisor)                         – G$1,085,233            per month;
4.      Gail Teixeira (Presidential Advisor)                           – G$967,985                per month;
5.      Zulifphkar Mustapha (Presidential Advisor)              – G$307,600              per month;
6.      Desmond Kissoon (Presidential Advisor)                   – G$280,000              per month;
7.      young Cheddi Jagan (Presidential Advisor)               – G$489,666              per month;
8.      Chitreka Dass (Presidential Advisor)                         – G$255,000                per month;
9.      Young Charles Ramson (Presidential Advisor)          – G$667,400              per month;
10. Hydar Ally (Deputy HPS and letter writer)                – G$550,064                per month;
11. Kawme McCoy (Presidential Advisor)                       – G$334,850                per month;
12. Mahendra Romel Roopnarine (Advisor)                    – G$395,000                per month;
Between these twelve PPP operative the taxpayers are hit with a contract bill of G$150 million a year (including gratuity) plus expenses in 2011. The hit from these PPP angels are expected to be around G$175 million plus expenses in 2012 and over G$200 million in 2013.
This Jagdeo/Ramotar cabal has forgotten that the State workers need critical relief. By every measure, this 2013 Budget failed to deliver on that.
As Moses Nagamootoo exposed, the Treasury is not a PPP “Dharm Shala”.
Dr. Asquith Rose and Harish S. Singh

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