Thwaites raises concern over INDECOM salary package

[Lazie]

Thwaites raises concern over INDECOM salary package

Published: Thursday | November 18, 2010

Member of Parliament Ronald Thwaites on Tuesday described the structure of salaries and emoluments of the Independent Commission of Investigations as a move to circumvent the tax system.

He said while he did not begrudge the commissioners for their pay packages, the complex breakdown was indicative of an effort to prevent them from paying taxes.

In a response to the resolution that was made by Prime Minister Bruce Golding, Thwaites argued that a simple salary package would have sufficed.

The commissioners rake in a salary of $5.7 million; housing allowance of $2 million, plus an entertainment allowance of $85,000; library allowance, $204,000; leave passage allowance, $400,000; security allowance, $21,000; and motor-vehicle allowance, $796,000.

Strange, why didn't the gleaner provide the response given by the PM? Imagine after all the grand standing that focking hypocrite is a member of the house that approved the package.

Why the questions, Ronnie?

Dear Editor,
I watched last Tuesday's sitting of the House of Representatives and was annoyed once again by the dolly house-type Parliament we seem to be conducting in Jamaica.


As I watched the proceedings, I marvelled at Member of Parliament Ronald Thwaites's strident query of the salary package of the commissioner of the newly established Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM).
Thwaites, contributing to the debate on the motion brought by Prime Minister Bruce Golding for the approval of the commissioner's salary package, said that certain allowances of the salary package were ridiculous in these modern days and were tantamount to some convenient way at tax evasion. He wondered why those allowances were made available to the commissioner.
The prime minister reminded the MP that the commissioner is entitled by law to those allowances and a salary package so structured, akin to that of a puisne judge of the Supreme Court. That law to which the prime minister referred is the law establishing INDECOM that was passed earlier this year by the very Parliament of which MP Thwaites is a member.
It follows that if Thwaites is a member of said Parliament that passed the Independent Commission of Investigations Act 2010, why was he not au fait with the provisions of the Act respecting the commissioner's salary prior to the prime minister moving the motion for the approval of the salary package?
Kevin KO Sangster

sangstek@msn.com


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[Gamma]

hmmmm .....

[Mosiah]

relax! it would seem to me that the deacon is not merely concerned about salary per se, but the package and how the allowances were alotted. what's wrong with that?

[Lazie]

relax! it would seem to me that the deacon is not merely concerned about salary per se, but the package and how the allowances were alotted. what's wrong with that?

Why didn't he raise his concern when the package was being passed into law? Ronnie Thwaites looking for a means to mek himself relevant. Peter Phillps used MPP to gain relevance in the PNP again, Thwaites still trying to find something fi latch onto.

[Mosiah]

see where yuh going. not into the unnecessary partisan chatter right now.

[Lazie]

see where yuh going. not into the unnecessary partisan chatter right now.

Yeah man... only if its going after Bruce.