Workers attached to the Canefield-Enterprise Neighbourhood Dem-ocratic Council in East Canje, Berbice have finally been paid their wages and salaries albeit not the full amounts.
For the past four months, the workers were not paid for services they had rendered to the NDC.
The NDC relies on the payment of taxes to survive and pay its employees and GuySuCo is the largest single entity from which the NDC collects taxes, as it represents over 50% of the NDC’s taxes’ base. Unfortunately, the NDC is currently experiencing a cash flow shortage owing to the fact that its main taxpayer, GuySuCo, owes it $25M.
However, a few days ago, the NDC was able to pay the workers approximately half of the monies owed to them after GuySuCo paid it some $1M in taxes. This payment of backdated taxes came in the
