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Pricey Cabinet - Close To $200m Per Annum In Salaries, Allowances
pauperized country with so much poverty - whey yuh HL, excessive bureaucracy
Tyrone Reid, Senior Staff Reporter
Flip-flopping on her previous position on big government while she was in Opposition, Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller has named a 28-member executive that will cost taxpayers close to $200 million per annum, at current rates, in salaries and allowances.
According to data gleaned from a Gordon House document detailing the salaries, allowances, and reimbursable expenses payable to members of parliament (MPs) and the political directorate, the 20 members of the Cabinet will pocket $134.5 million per annum while the eight ministers of state will collectively bank $47.01 million.
When the salaries and allowances payable to the slate of junior ministers are added to what is being paid to the members of the Cabinet, the total executive pay package balloons to $181.5 million. This does not include the salary of the attorney general, a post previously tied to that of the minister of justice.
After naming her 18-member shadow Cabinet in May last year, Simpson Miller said if she were in government, the number would not be that high.
"I did not announce an 18-member Cabinet. I'm not the Government," she said when asked if that would be the size of her Cabinet.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/2...ead/lead1.html
pauperized country with so much poverty - whey yuh HL, excessive bureaucracy
Tyrone Reid, Senior Staff Reporter
Flip-flopping on her previous position on big government while she was in Opposition, Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller has named a 28-member executive that will cost taxpayers close to $200 million per annum, at current rates, in salaries and allowances.
According to data gleaned from a Gordon House document detailing the salaries, allowances, and reimbursable expenses payable to members of parliament (MPs) and the political directorate, the 20 members of the Cabinet will pocket $134.5 million per annum while the eight ministers of state will collectively bank $47.01 million.
When the salaries and allowances payable to the slate of junior ministers are added to what is being paid to the members of the Cabinet, the total executive pay package balloons to $181.5 million. This does not include the salary of the attorney general, a post previously tied to that of the minister of justice.
After naming her 18-member shadow Cabinet in May last year, Simpson Miller said if she were in government, the number would not be that high.
"I did not announce an 18-member Cabinet. I'm not the Government," she said when asked if that would be the size of her Cabinet.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/2...ead/lead1.html
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