‘Walk in the shoes of average public servants’

Red Thread member Joy Marcus has challenged former Minister of Labour and current PPP/C parliamentarian Manzoor Nadir to walk in the shoes of the poor class of citizens before making a determination of the adequacy of the salaries they earn to maintain their families.

Marcus, in an interview with the Sunday Stabroek, was responding to a recent statement made by Nadir that the average public servant makes enough to maintain their families. She said Nadir should be asked to give up his salary for that which is earned by the public servant and live on it.

“He can only say that about people; he is on the outside looking in, we are on the