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Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit has announced an increase in the President’s salary in the new year.<\/p>\n
He made the announcement during a press conference held this week.<\/p>\n
According to him, the issue of the salaries that are issued by the constitution and require parliamentary or cabinet\u2019s approval by way of amendments to the Act, there is a law that deals with the President and the terms and engagement of the President.<\/p>\n
Skerrit said his government has done a comprehensive review of the terms of the President and not only the emoluments, but also how the government as a nation treats both serving and former Presidents.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have done a comprehensive review of the President\u2019s emoluments and engagement so I look forward in the first quarter of next year that we can take this to Parliament and that will also include an increase in the President\u2019s salary,\u201d he revealed.<\/p>\n
The Prime Minister further added that the government is also taking into consideration, particular legal treatment of the President\u2019s spouse while in office.<\/p>\n
\u201cOnce you become the President\u2019s spouse then you become limited in what you can do, what you can engage in and I think that a burden should not be placed on the President\u2019s family if they decide to serve the nation,\u201d \u00a0Skerrit said. \u201cThat there must be some facilitation. And so we are also taking into consideration the particular legal treatment of the President\u2019s spouse while in office, because there are some things that the President’s office must be extended to\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n
He continued, \u201cAnd as you saw by way of a cabinet decision in respect to the former Prime Ministers we took a cabinet decision to provide $7000 a month to every former Prime Minister. You have a driver, you have a helper at the house, in some cases you have a vehicle.\u201d<\/p>\n
Furthermore, he indicated that in respect to the Director of Audit in 2024 there was a Statutory Rule and Order, which may need to be updated because of some of the changes, \u201cso that will be done.<\/p>\n
He went on to add that there was a change of salary for the Chief Elections Officer.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs you know we also took a decision to change the retirement date for the Director of Audit and the Chief Elections Officer, because as it was before the Chief Elections Officer had to demit office at age 55 and that was changed during the process of electoral reform,\u201d Skerrit explained.<\/p>\n
The current standard retirement age is sixty (60) or sixty-five (65) years of age.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit has announced an increase in the President’s salary in the new year. He made the announcement during a press conference held this week. According to him, the issue of the salaries that are issued…","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":354212,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":""},"categories":[18,36,77,235,9,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-354211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-economy-development","category-homepage","category-homepage-carousel","category-news","category-politics"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n