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Oct 10, 2015 Letters
Dear Editor,
As I was preparing this letter, I came across a video on Facebook by CNN that profiled the CEO of one of the world’s top 10 Airlines (Japan Airlines). The CEO commutes with his workers by public transport, eats in the same cafeteria with his team and waits in line for his turn to get food. When his company was facing financial difficulties (like the case of Guyana now) the CEO refused all his perks and bonuses and took a pay cut up to the point where he was only earning JPN$90,000 yearly. To put this into to context, this CEO made less than a middle to low income earner in the US.
The point here is, when a country or organization is in economic disaster, only the wise and true leaders will lead by example and not take the whole pie and leave the crumbs for the others. If you accept Mr. Harmon’s justification as fact, then he is naturally implying that all of his Government officials (including him) are corrupt, unless they are given more money. Can the Minister show us any data that proves this fact? Can he prove to us that more money given to public servants will reduce corruption?
The problem here, like the other Ministers, example Mr. Ramjattan, they are using baseless reasons with no scientific data to back their decisions and making national policy changes on pure smoke. The only justification that APNU/AFC provides is that the PPP/C did the same, so it seems they have to right to do so too.
The Government offered public servants a so called “election promise” pay increase and everyone thinks it was great but if you look at the sharp rise in cost of living after May 11, 2015, it is clear to everyone that those same public servants are probably worse off now than before. The only ones that will see actual benefits from their pay increases are the Government Ministers and Vice Presidents, because they are taking the whole pie.
I thought APNU/AFC were “Public Servants” and not necessarily hoping to become rich off of tax payers as they accused the PPP/C of. Where is the “it is time for change” factor in all this? Has APNU forgotten about it?
Malcolm Watkins, CSCP.
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