The Saint Lucian cabinet of ministers have agreed to take a 75% salary reduction in face of the Economic crisis brought on by COVID-19 according to a LOOP news report Wednesday.
Bradley Felix ,commerce minister of St. Lucia, said earlier this week at a sitting of the Saint Lucian parliament that negotiations were at an advanced stage that would see parliamentarians take home 25% of their salaries.
The parliamentarians were the first on the block as it relates to that,” Felix told reporters Tuesday, noting, “It is across the board.”
Rumours of a pending 50% pay cut for civil servants have been circulating via social media but the government has since refuted such claims.
Fully support a 75% salary cut for ALL PARLIAMENTARIANS, that includes the opposition PARLIAMENTARIANS. This reduction must also apply to ministers. In addition traveling officers who are not working should not be paid traveling allowance, we on lockdown nobody traveling.
This pot-belly government in Dominica is a complete waste of hard earned Dominican tax payers money. I will like anyone to attempt to justify twenty-one (21) Ministers of Government for approximately sixty thousand (60 000) inhabitants. Dominica has the largest Cabinet of Ministers per capita in the Caribbean probably in the world. Skerrit Cabinet is one of extreme:
*extremely large
*extremely backward
*extremely exclusionary
*extremely corrupt
* extremely mendacious
Skerrit and his henchmen, especially the one with the PIG Face ( Austrie) should take a 95% salary cut. Losers!
I support this 100 percent, once the LAZY opposition takes a 99 percent cut in salary.
Mr. Big Up wait until life gets back to normal and they give themselves a 150% pay increase, i would love to hear you insist that the Dominican parliament do likewise.
Skerrit should know that if he planning any tax increase, layoffs or wage reduction then he has to reduce his cabinet by half and their wages. Along with all his ambassadors. And limit unnecessary travel along with reducing any travel allowance because is so those ministers does make bank. Because i not suffering for a set to have good times. Leadership is everything? Then he better lead by shared sacrificing.
The Ministers of government of Dominica have an insatiable propensity for materialistic possessions. While many thousands are jobless, impecunious and hungry, these gluttonous vultures continue to live their Champaign lifestyles. These do-nothing sluggards are undeserving of their obese, monthly take home salaries for .having the country, to this date, without a stimulus economic plan; for going to foreign countries with tin cup in hand; for having babies and children going to bed on empty stomachs; for having the vagrants on the deserted streets starving, nothing to eat nor any place to shelter from the elements. This place constantly goes from one comess to a next. The country needs divine intervention.
For Skerrit? Melissa? Reggie, Roselyn Paul? Blackmore, Judas Iscariot, Alisa, Catherine Daniel, Ian, Shakira Hypocrite, and others to take a pay cut? In the interest of Dominica? All you ever read this from 2 Timothy 3:13:
“But evil men and imposters will advance to worse, deceiving and being deceived.”
It’s easier for me to believe those lies about Christopher Columbus than to believe those characters above will take a pay cut.
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First here is a general statement: The truth is, when you are in politics because you love people, love country and want to serve your country, taking a pay cut of 25% 50% or even 75% during a crisis is as easy as drinking a cup of water because you didn’t come to enrich yourself. But when you are in politics because you are greedy and is willing to do anything for money; or because of love for money and was paid to run so they could help hide and cover a wanted criminal from international super powers there is no way they will take a pay cut! Now let’s talk about Dominica and our government: As a bible believing Christian I am obligated by conscience to say that what we have in office today in the name of government reminds me of the story Jesus told of the good Samaritan in Luke 10:25-30, where thieves beat up a man and stole all he had and left him half dead. That’s the state of Dominica’ today. Sad to say that it’s easier to see them take a pay raise than a pay cut.
@Alibaba & the forty thieves, you are no Bible believer to compare that scripture with the work of the Government of Dominica–no way!
Also, the Bible is a book that anyone can read, but what is hard to do is to receive the essence (truth) of what you read. You don’t have that truth, which has to be given to you by the Holy Spirit–you don’t know HIM and HE DOESN”T KNOW YOU!
Big up and praise to the St. Lucian parliament. A brave and selfless act by individuals who have the true concern of their nation at heart. I guess the challenge is now to see if sister island Dominica have such brave and selfless people in their parliament, or are we going to see the “hungry hyenas” continue to feed at the public trough to the detriment of the people’s welfare. Stand up my people, show your inner mettle!
Calm yourself. Stop making politicians “selfless act” fool you all. They (politicians) are all full of s@#!.
Big up and praise to the St. Lucian parliament. A brave and selfless act by individuals who have the true concern of their nation at heart. I guess the challenge is now to see if sister island Dominica have such brave and selfless people in their parliament, or are we going to see the “hungry hyenas” continue to feed at the public trough to the detriment of the people’s welfare. Stand up my people, show your inner mettle!
This is what a government of the people is expected to do. I suggested in a previous post that if our government want to live by example the should take a salary cut of 50 or 75%. Dominicans are the problem. We are too divided. I see bus drivers fighting among themselves. The government refused to give financial aid to a policy they implemented. Bus drivers could do two things. Stay home if they can afford and those who cannot afford to stay home, raise their price while sticking to the requirements. What they should not do is fill the busses with passengers and raise price at same time. This would put pressure on the travelling public. If they cannot afford the high cost then they stay home or put pressure on gov. Instead they are arguing amongst themselves. Meanwhile the gov quiet on financial relief. Same thing with unions on island. Seems like the labour party has more money available than the government of Dominica.