Former PM says testified that Cabinet made no decision on retroactive pay for GPL board members

Former Prime Minister Sam Hinds yesterday said that he testified in court on Thursday that while Cabinet approved pay increases for GPL board members there was no decision on retroactive payment.

Hinds was responding to a news item in yesterday’s edition headlined `Cabinet decided on retroactive pay for GPL board members – former PM testifies at start of Carvil Duncan trial’. He said the account in the news item was the opposite of what he had said in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court. He noted that