The 50% salary hike for cabinet members was “fair” and “necessary”, according to Minister of Governance Raphael Trotman who today said that a junior level high court judge is paid over $1M per month and as such there ought to be parity between the executive, legislature and judicial branches of government.
“We say to the people of Guyana to trust us. You trusted us with government on May 11, we ask you to continue to trust and to believe in us”, Trotman said when asked to say something to the ordinary man who earns $50, 000 while government members are now set to collect large salaries.
Trotman is the latest government minister to respond to the growing criticisms which are centred mainly on the fact that the APNU+AFC government is still in its infancy stage having assumed office only four months ago and in the wake of public servants receiving a 5% which was only made retroactive from July this year when they had originally been promised a “significant” hike.
At a post cabinet press briefing today
