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Govt. needs to buy its way out of poor corruption ratings
Dear Editor,
I am amazed and marginally confounded that Bishop Minister Juan Edghill (or is it Minister Bishop Juan Edghill?) would waste his valuable time and the nation’s money trying to debunk the universally held belief that Guyana has become one of the most corrupt countries on the planet. The problem is mathematical dear minister.
How can a country that pays a policeman with a wife and three children $50,000 a month from which his monthly rest is $35,000 and GPL electricity bill around $20,000 not have a poor corruption rating? I am taking the liberty of using our uniformed services as a mere example of chronic underpayment in the public sector.
I beg another liberty in advising our Honourable Minister in the Ministry of Finance that his time and the nation’s money would be better spent were he to energetically pursue realistic salary increases for our public service employees and the men and women we daily rely on to protect us, our families and property. In a sense, the task is for government to buy its way out of poor corruption ratings by paying the public servants much better than is presently the case.
F. Hamley Case
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