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NDC workers still waiting on 10% retroactive

Jan 24, 2025 Letters

Dear Editor,

December has long gone and January almost expired, the NDC workers are still waiting to receive their 10% retroactive pay announced for public servants by Government for 2024.

In 2023 it was 6.5 % plus a $25,000 bonus and it was paid before Christmas, like all the previous years. These lowly paid workers (earning about 65,000 per month) had grown accustomed to having this retroactive payment to supplement their Christmas holidays. Every Guyanese knows that on a salary of 65,000 per month these NDC workers and their families had a bleak Christmas.

The touting of “One Guyana” by the president seems to be nothing more than a mirage as the poor are forgotten and pushed back more into abject poverty.

The word is that the NDC Overseers had written letters to the Local Government Ministry since the announcement of the 10% retroactive in December, seeking permission to pay their staff the same and to this date no response has been received. There has been no word in the media about the ministers in the local Government Ministry being in a coma or otherwise incapacitated since December and as a result, their lack of response is sending chills of fear through the hearts of the NDC workers. The workers are wondering if an increase from 6.5 to 10%, a mere 3.5 % on their meagre salary has made them fall from grace, whereby they are no longer being considered as public servants by the Ministry of Local Government and by extension the present government.

Either way the NDC workers and the general public deserve to know as it will help to decide the degree of vindictiveness of the government. Paying now when it was normally paid before Christmas is vindictive, dropping the workers status from public servants is more vindictive.

Yours respectfully,

Rudolph Singh

(NDC workers still waiting on 10% retroactive)

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