Abundant self-interest drove the APNU+AFC government to raise the salaries of its ministers by as much as 50% and the widely-denounced move is devoid of political morality or savvy, political commentator Dr Henry Jeffrey says.
“Notwithstanding its quite fuzzy and extremely problematic explanations, it is clear that inherent in the decision to pay itself salary increases far above those of its employees, who, for the most part, are just inches away from the bread-line, is an abundant self-interest,” Jeffrey wrote in his Stabroek News column published yesterday.
He said that when a government deliberately refuses to listen to the voice of its people it had better be on solid ground, such as
