Continuing its efforts to justify significant salary increases for its ministers, the APNU+AFC government yesterday said that both Presidents Bharrat Jagdeo and Donald Ramotar received monthly tax-free salaries of $1.7 million and now earn pensions of $4.5 million each per month in addition to perks.
In a statement responding to a letter by PPP/C parliamentarian Charles Ramson Jr asking why President David Granger’s salary as well as that of Attorney-General (AG) Basil Williams was tax free, the government in a statement, said it noted the attempts at continued misrepresentation of the increases.
The statement said that the records show that Jagdeo and Ramotar enjoyed monthly tax-free salary packages to the
