Amid an ongoing controversy over significant salary hikes for ministers, Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo waded into the fray yesterday saying that the increases were necessary to offset the loss of earnings that the officials will face in public office.
“You have to take recognition, as we did when bauxite was nationalized, as sugar was nationalised, the promise on the agreement was the workers would have no less favourable conditions that they enjoyed prior to the nationalisation. So if someone came into government, you must expect them to give their service,
