Wage freeze

[Lazie]

Increase revenues - yuh nuh see seh people refuse to pay taxes

Easy wid him Mdmex ... him confused!

[Lazie]

...as Lazie infers, make it painless!

My name easy fi call?

[1of1]

if it was Portia Simpson Miller tell mi bout wage freeze I woulda tel har some cllaat!!

[Lazie]

If that's his solution to the crisis, yes, that's what I'd claim!

Anybody know if Portia and Mosiah guh a di same school? Did the PM in anyway indicate this was the only measure to address the problem? Suh why Portia and Mosiah seem to get that impression?

PM's salary cut is a "show of tokenism" - Simpson Miller

Jamaica Observer

Posted: 4/6/2009 10:28:23 AM

Opposition Leader Portia Simpson Miller has dismissed the decision by Prime Minister Bruce Golding to cut his own salary by 15 per cent and forgo a seven per cent pay rise as a "show of tokenism".

Instead Simpson Miller called for him to cut the number of ministers serving in the Cabinet, which she said would save on ministerial salaries, expenses and perks

“It would have been a far more effective measure that would yield more measurable and significant savings to the public purse for the Prime Minister to cut the size of his oversized Cabinet," she said in a statement today.

However she welcomed that he took the step but added that more needed to be done to address the recession.

[Willi]

Can we all just agree that this is the right and necessary TOKEN action to take to signal intent, but that in and of itself it is insufficient to solve the crisis?

Sigh, what all the fuss about?

[Gamma]

ah bwoy willi....

[Mosiah]

However she welcomed that he took the step but added that more needed to be done to address the recession.

Of course, you missed that part.

Portia is not usually right, but she is on this occasion!

[Mosiah]

Talk to Lazie. He thinks it's enuff.

[MdmeX]

How the hell we gonna collect more REVENUE, when we caan even agree that a TOKEN action is a good small way to start

[Peter R]

Where did he indicate that?

Anyhow, regardless of who the PM is in Jamaica, the way our politics is played you'd be damned if you do and damned if you don't. The cut suggests the PM is tightening his belt like all and sundry. Tokenism? yes, but necessary... regardless of whether you like him or not.

Do the govt. have solutions? anything will be localised... our economy has a significant exposure to the global economy; aluminum and demand for it and tourism to name the two important ones... that is out of the govt's control. We now have to look at ways to get more self-sufficient especially in food. That's where I look to the govt to become creative and innovative.

[Baddaz]

a good jesture... i support this move by the pm... i would like to see a reform of the tax system and revenue collection efforts... i believe too many people are not paying taxes...

dance promoters... artists on shows... sound operators... studio operators... this is just one small section...

the tax office need to be more vigilant...

[Assasin]

A labourite and PNP thing man.

which side you deh pon?

[Assasin]

yeah B. Even higglas, barber, illegal taxi.

a little smalls will help. People expect services but no fi pay nothing.

Time fi a change.

[Gamma]

a jamaica mi interested inna.....

[MdmeX]

Revive the shoemaking (cobbler - dem use to call them nuh) business and export. Afterall, mi tiad of all those shoes made in China, which seem to be everywhere (make me want to puck)

Everytime, I have to ask the store clerk, if shoes are not made in Brazil and Spain anymore.