Since bajans that can afford will keep on buying, this will bring in some needed revenue from the lost of departure, hotel etc taxes. King Harvald V of Norway is a long life of Norwegian rulers getting paid quite a bit to wear the crown. This hubristic lot are showing their true colours very early in their term of holding office. To cut her 30 ministers would mean that she cuts some of the 30 ATM machines in these constituencies. We are in a comfortable position, but we want to ensure we have safe work for safe people. 106 0 obj <> endobj Ryan Straughn, Minister in the Finance ministry, However, Minister in the Ministry of Finance Ryan Straughn has argued that the public needs to pay less attention to the numbers and focus more on the deliverables. A contract works both ways and an argument too. 2.46M subscribers Mia Amor Mottley, Prime Minister, Minister for National Security and the Civil Service, and Minister for Finance, Economic Affairs and Investment of Barbados, addresses. What is the name of the second passenger on board the said flight and what is the purpose of the persons travel here? Is it not true to state that the public sector is large because the private sector is not creating the job opportunities ? YOU ASKED THE MULTIMILLION $$$ KICKBACK QUESTION WITH A DIFFERENT ACTOR AT THE TOP OF THE PILE BETWEEN THE 2 PROJECTS. The proposed salaries are the same as the existing salaries with MPs earning $56,023, with additional payments if they hold other positions, such as $151,262 for Premier, $147,022 for Attorney General, $112,942 for Deputy Premier, $100,841 for other Ministers, $30,367 for Opposition Leader and $26,569 for Speaker of the House. I would go for the temporary pay cut and temporary hiring . There are plenty of jobs there. As Enuff stated you have to balance lives with livelyhoods.It is alright for you and the gloers to run their mouths nobody voted for you to look after their affairs.In closing let me thank all the frontline workers fpr the hard work they are doing most bajans appteciate it and are behind them 100% percent.We will overcome this in the name of the lord. . On May 14, 2021, Prime Minister Mottley re-opened the St. Andrew Outpatient Clinic. A little history is good. Calm Workers and trade unions have downright exploited the employers. Since 1966, not the commercial banks and investors, but the citizens have elected governments that have proved to be financially illiterate. . All of these factors will deepen our present rough recession and push people further below the poverty line. . And stunting the handouts to the electorate. Sign up and stay up to date with Barbados' FREE latest news. Why do we need 36 MPs for an island of just 60,000? The Easter season started off in fine style on Saturday as just over 20 children participated in a small but colourful Easter 3rd floor, CGI towers, Warrens, St. Michael. HN0>&H$M4@ Uv(%FmA866J*zM$,)pI>YE-%o2\ !+5th)9.4(#jA$(dp#4L)T ij^"psPaQ ;*4}pi}qe~BeAi0JUe5cB?{4mjdGK'U;-FpiSlcXuA}[wi!NTU-wqt5&F+ uA|`{&eby1- However, the source said that was a proposal submitted to the Prime Minister by a senior member of the team but it was rejected with orders to go back to the drawing board. The miller is all for the Hyatt project as long as the financing of the expenditure is backed by private sector entities and not taxpayers or NIS contributions without a majority ownership in the skin in the tourism investment gambling game. @Tron She commended the Government for absorbing some of the costs so nurses would be able to own their own homes. A %age of NRSL will go towards subsidizing agriculture production to keep the price low and affordable to (especially) the poor start campaign of going back to eating what we grow. 5V. For example, we provide accurate form labels; 134 0 obj <>stream Theme Easy Magazine by, Groundbreaking for Dukes Agricultural Research Park, Update on Wages Negotiations process 2022-2025, Remarks at Mediation Workshop at Barbados Community College, IMF reaches staff-level agreement with Barbados, Inaugural Kofi Annan Lecture Series, delivered by Prime Minister Mottley, Statement by the President of Barbados on the passing of The Queen, Statement on the election of Dr. Terrance Drew as the new Prime Minister of St. Kitts and Nevis, Statement on the occasion of the Emancipation Day, Courtesy call by the Ambassador of the Republic of Ghana, Statement on return from CARICOM meeting in Suriname. The Prime Minister said the last minimum payment for shop assistants was introduced almost a decade or more ago, in a world that has seen price increases of more than 40 per cent. Thats how it is in Barbados. In return for lower wages, we must of course reduce the cost of living. Our, report indicates that these wage cuts range from between five per cent to 50 per cent cuts and this goes counter to the, You do not have the right as an employer to go into an employees salary and reduce them at your whim and fancy, he stressed, while making it clear that BWU. this will keep the money circulating and maintain the jobs in the business as you mentioned. On a very serious note, will the police arrest that piece of shit minister that had a gathering in a church and now there is an OUTBREAK that they are trying hard to cover up and fool the people that its not that serious.. .they can arrest young hardheaded people, give them big heavy fines and 6 month prison sentencesarrest that useless public nuisance for a minister. Bajans from the 1800s have always funded the water works, so why are they still paying water bills and not getting any water in a lot of parishesin the 21st century. Their judgment was January next year. It is not just a wages cut only. I keep away from you for a reason. Companies are moving ahead with their survival plan and part of that plan says that they will cut the salaries of workers. Or was the BERT propaganda just another smoke and mirrors and playing for time game of hopscotch or puss-puss catch a corner? For foreign investors with bonds in foreign currency, this is impossible anyway, as long as the papers are issued beyond local law. Ask the business community what they think of Sinckler. Users can also use shortcuts such as M (menus), H (headings), F (forms), B (buttons), and G (graphics) to jump to specific elements. Therefore, we have worked very hard to be able to support all major systems that comprise over 95% of the user market share including Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Opera and Microsoft Edge, JAWS and NVDA (screen readers), both for Windows and for MAC users. A public sector wage cut removes liquidity from an economy in very deep recession, and can be considered a pro-recessionary policy. to advise, Government . Wages are falling. . Saint Barnabas Accord for Cooperation signed! [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="227"] Ryan Straughn, Minister in the Finance ministry [/caption]. And, she added that while employees in the hotel, agriculture and public sectors were already paid above the minimum wage, there were those working in the retail sector, at gas stations and as domestics that also needed to be considered. The announcement of patriotic forced loans for civil servants was certainly not the last word! %PDF-1.6 % Get rid of half of them. If the NIS had invested its assets into shares like Norway and not into some local stinky projects, we would now be rich like the mighty Guyanese. Although [], Over the past week or so a number of commentators have raised questions in the [], Audio: Mrs. Phillipa ChallisAudio: Acting Prime Minister Santia BradshawPhoto album Transcript: Mrs. Phillip Challis [00:00:00] [], Transcript of an Address to the NationBy the Honourable Mia Amor Mottley, QC, MPOn April [], Presenting a live video feed of the COVID-19 update for April 25, 2020, featuring the [], Transcript of statementsBy Acting Prime Minister, The Hon. President of Barbados Term length Five years, renewable indefinitely Formation 30 November 1966; 56 years ago (1966-11-30) First holder Errol Barrow Salary BDS $213,334 annually[1] Politics of Barbados Constitution Human rights Executive President(list) Dame Sandra Mason Prime Minister(list) Mia Mottley Cabinet Ministries Legislature . The native masses on the island would only have to get off their butts and look for work there. Poll: Should We Reduce Size Of Cabinet & MPs? (Reuters) Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley on Monday called a snap general election for January 19. If we streamline the state apparatus, we can use tax cuts to boost the private sector. x}|U97-S23!L2IfIB`@2kL I hP"Q4d@ ],k^V*]]>{vwzyg||Xmy|_SQZ>nm+J]Tic;1kg3FNXu6>sp= . An increase in VAT would be far more targeted, since no VAT is charged on exports. I had calls from two different people because their workplace told them that they had to take a 20 per cent cut or else they would be made redundant, Franklyn said. The BGIS was established in 1958 in response to the need to inform and educate the public regarding government and its activities. Required fields are marked *. The BGIS was established in 1958 in response to the need to inform and educate the public regarding government and its activities. A lot of the duties and work are not carried out by the minister; he designates work to parliamentary secretaries and other people in the ministry. (BA). Of course, the next easy target to receive a rude awakening are those sitting on their nest eggs of cash savings stashed away in their low interest-bearing accounts at the commercial banks and credit unions. We have these tariffs only to protect the totally overvalued Barbados dollar. They think that the people cant see that they are only there to serve their own self-interest and the people must take the devils hindmost. If they take something from you here, you will have less debt . Non repayment of bank loans would lead to a higher level of bad debts in the banking system, and frequent foreclosures would follow. The prime minister of Barbados is technically the "first among equals," whose vote in meetings of the Cabinet carries no greater weight than that of any other minister. N9A27K)v9HbX4fl]=K]8TrV`]T{a~x5^xRejb"-QnsCB`AickZB||/|z>#|$|(|*q8mfR2]]v;|Og}"`3N}K4a_vM ]8/&cHcnm6}05}y|3NI! . We must indeed restructure the state sector. descriptions for actionable icons (social media icons, search icons, cart icons, etc. According to Sandie: Wunna could like it or lump it. Screen-reader users also get automatic announcements to turn the Screen-reader mode on But the economic circumstances then were fundamentally different. It is not the job of our government to guarantee everybody a carefree life in Barbados itself. Hey, what did the OBA do for public education??? tbN0 zp"PYFtQE:PG1D|Z1%C(9! I can tell you as a minister that even during this COVID-19 lockdown, we have all been working, and as a matter of fact, much harder than we were working before, Straughn said. The Prime Minister said the new measure, through which some public officers would have part of their salary kept in the form of bonds, would play a significant role in helping provide Government with more fiscal space as it continued to deal with the debilitating economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. [3] Despite the renaming, the functions of the office were not significantly changed. What i want CARICOM to do is to deplore the corruption that is a staple in many caricom member states, that should be addressed, many crimes against the people, the tax paying cittizes are being committed and have for years, where are your voice against that, its keeping the islands so affected from progressing, stagnaning economic growth and future development in the majority population generation after generation, yes, the same islands that are all over the place borrowing money because corruption has been DISRUPTING cash flow to the citizens for decades, their own money.deplore thatno matter who is sitting as Chairman. Let me be clear, the cutting of workers wages is not legal unless you can get a firm agreement from workers that they are going to participate in such an activity. ++++++++++++++ The Government has to simply address this matter because we cannot have persons being put in this situation. Nurses have been under the microscope for the last two plus years and the pandemic fundamentally altered everything about the way we lived and the way we did things. A source told the Sunday Sun that heading the salary cut negotiations were Dr Kevin Greenidge, Senior Economic Advisor to the Barbados Government; Dr Clyde Mascoll, Chief Economic Counsellor to the Prime Minister; and Avinash Persaud, Special Advisor to Government. (TG). When one examines the results, I think one would understand that the approach we have been adopting has been working and therefore it is on that basis that we have to allow the work to continue. emmanueljoseph@barbadostoday.bb Who paid for this private jet travel from NYC to Barbados? Because as I have said over and over, there is never a wrong time to do the right thing, Ms. Mottley said. Obviously in a COVID-19 environment people are looking for things to cut, but the reality is that the workload is still there for Barbados and we still have to deploy people effectively in order to ensure that we can respond to the countrys needs. the more people working the better for the economy. This includes the ability to navigate the website using the Tab and Shift+Tab keys, operate dropdowns with the arrow keys, close them with Esc, trigger buttons and links using the Enter key, navigate between radio and checkbox elements using the arrow keys, and fill them in with the Spacebar or Enter key.Additionally, keyboard users will find quick-navigation and content-skip menus, available at any time by clicking Alt+1, or as the first elements of the site while navigating with the keyboard. Then we can start talking with the unions about returning the 5% raise by the BLP. When they ware voted in / at the pleasure of the PM the only salary one would have gotten would have been that of an MP. Government has promised us that they have put things in place to start the regrading, the BNA leader added. 9z[^X //;'bb0H~7b{]w"h.\mDeU"TR]HOyGbv3n nSQa[k~=%bi'-J'S?|FmGF]A- A The economy is in tatters and the people are unemployed. to reduce imports / save FX. "The time has come to fully leave our. xref 18 12 0000000447 00000 n v|SleT.]#ah2F/}B[K5tOTg`pUc 0 2DM&IJWkE Howard suggested some ministries be merged. Franklyn said that if this prospect materialised, some civil servants would be left with no disposable income. they will get ROBBED AGAINthe first 4 seasons scam..pension fund lost 60 million US that dumb ass David Thompson took and used as collateral for a loan for the scam, like if it was his moneywith the usual minority crooks running said scam, many said Mia was the lawyer fo the crooks.. next thing ya know big lawsuits, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Simon Cowell, this millioniare, that billionaire, all took a bath from thise crooks for hundreds of milliions claiming they selling villas but trying to milk the treasury and pension fund to finish the project. Mottley continues to face criticisms for the size of the Cabinet that some argue is a strain on public coffers during very lean times for Barbados. I argued then that a large public sector wage cut was a partial alternative https://www.facebook.com/groups/269202760462518/permalink/545531806162944/. The Prime Minister announced in her budget that the government would be introducing a training programme in the public service, which is currently at the trial stage. I dont think IMF will allow for early retirement at this stage but if government can persuade them then I can go for that.. @ Artax May 17, 2020 2:45 PM . However, the source revealed that those involved in the negotiations, including the trade unions and the workers bargaining unit, had been sworn to secrecy. had described it as the largest and possibly most duplicated in the islands history. Highlight of Friday, June [], Bridgetown, Barbados Agrofest 2022 officially opened on Friday evening at Queens Park with the [], Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Sr. Minister the Most Honourable Dr. Jerome X. Obviously she brought the virus from NYC The further necessary treatment of that wound is best left to the professionals. At the end of one year this can be reviewed/extended . Government Information Service,Banstan Manor,The Garrison,St. Michael,Barbados, Copyright 2020 BGIS Media. [], Budgetary Proposals and Financial Statement 2023Upward Onward Bajan Excellence 2030 Delivered by the Hon. Prime ministers added to the Privy council (by year): Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. Government Information Service,Banstan Manor,The Garrison,St. Michael,Barbados, Copyright 2020 BGIS Media. To qualify, you must earn at least 39,760 . The blogmaster joins with many looking forward to participate in a sensible national discussion about the best way forward in a COVID world. Agreed. Who will protect labour? @ Tron May 19, 2020 10:32 AM Return of NRSL (25%?) Allows using the site with your screen-reader. There was a two to three-year limit involved. If government is a continuum what has become of these projects many of which were supposed to have secured their financing? If we are already shrinking the public sector, we must of course also cut unnecessary contracts or subsidies for private building contractors and hotel operators. I am not at this time willing to send home government workers but I can see how some would take this opportunity to reduce /reset government wages/salary bill. Your email address will not be published. 3) Directive, 2021 and [], February 2, 2021 Prime Minister, the Honourable Mia Amor Mottley, QC, MP, addressed the [], January 30, 2021 Attorney-General Dale Marshall, QC, MP, COVID-19 Cabinet Sub-Committee Chair Senator Dr. [], January 28, 2021 Minister of Energy, Small Business, and Entrepreneurship, the Honourable Kerrie D. [], January 26, 2021 Prime Minister of Barbados, the Honourable Mia Amor Mottley, QC, MP, [], January 23, 2021 Minister of Home Affairs, Information, and Public Affairs, the Honourable Wilfred [], January 15, 2021 Hon. (CLM), She noted that moral leadership would finally recognise that the use of historic per capita income to determine access to concessional or grant funds, or to determine fair access to the procurement of goods was unacceptable.. 3)R2( >+,7G2 )80,38g2 O!Y|PUM`4!r2K&E"wU'glR_zjGumPt]gR2lno9lIu=Mr5`G~mxt Y^GlfY I am sick and tired of this constant bashing of Go B by persons who should know better. You are not thinking clearly at all. He argued that based on the information coming to the union, it was nowessentially open season on wages, as companies had opted to go after the low-hanging fruit. It then resulted in the largest industrial action ever with a massive march of 20 000 workers through Bridgetown on November, 4, 1991. to advise Government . Such an agreement cannot be one that is forced or in a scenario where the worker is intimidated. It indicated that individuals in the salary range of $36 000 to $50 000 would receive a seven to ten per cent cut; those earning $51 000 to $99 000, a 15 to 20 per cent cut and those getting $100 000 and above 20 to 25 per cent cut.
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