“…We are not going to take the salary increase. We are just not going to take it,” Leader of the Opposition Bharrat Jagdeo told Stabroek News yesterday just hours after General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party Clement Rohee had stated that the party was yet to made a decision on the issue.
Rohee was vague when, at the party’s weekly press briefing, he was asked whether opposition MPs would accept the increase given the party’s vocal rejection of the ministerial 50% pay hike. He said the party had not made a decision as yet, but Jagdeo would be the person to speak on behalf of the party.
Rohee shot down attempts by the media to engage on how transparent the PPP administration had been in relation to ministerial salary
