Some CARICOM employees may soon find themselves out of jobs as the Community looks to adopt belt tightening measures with the proposal of a reduced budget.
The Guyana government’s chief spokesman Dr. Roger Luncheon yesterday told reporters that he believed that retrenchment will be unavoidable, since budget cuts usually meant programmes will be discontinued. “With the loss of a programme, the staff responsible for discharging or meeting the deliverables for those programmes will be out of work. So I don’t have any doubt in my mind that this revised downward budget would likely see some impact on the size of the staff and the number of employees, professionals and otherwise, who will be working for or with CARICOM,” he stated.
Dr. Luncheon added that the effects of the global financial crisis in particular were to blame for member states being unable to fully meet their financial
