52 responses to “Caswell Franklyn Shares with Barbadians: Public Sector Salary Revision 2023 at a Glance”

1. 

   David

   March 16, 2023 at 4:44 am

   
   

   @Sargeant

   Here is your man.

   Rowe cautions some building contractors
   DEPUTY SPEAKER of the House of Assembly Neil Rowe has blasted some contractors for “misusing taxpayers’ money”.
   As Budget Debate continued in the postlunch session of the House of Assembly yesterday, the Member of Parliament for St Michael North West expressed gratitude to the Urban Development Commission for allowing him to build “nearly 15 houses for less fortunate families” between 2018 and now, and to Prime Minister and the Minister of Finance Mia Amor Mottley “for providing the necessary resources” to allow the stateowned enterprise to facilitate this.
   After stating his intention was to build 15 more houses within the next five years, he touted that he had “built more houses for poor people” in the constituency “than the former Minister of Finance ever did in the ten years that he was the [parliamentary] representative, and that’s a fact. I don’t tell lies”.
   However, he took a turn in some of the contractors.
   “I want to take this opportunity to send a firm message to some of the contractors who do work for this Government. We have building contractors
   in this country that continue to suck the taxpayers. We have building contractors in this country that are getting contracts and misusing taxpayers’ money. They know who they are. I know who they are too, and it needs to stop.
   “When a building contractor receives a contract and crashed the job by misusing the funds or creating errors during the building construction, the taxpayers have to pay for their wrongdoings. It needs to stop. We need to chastise some of these contractors who we as MPs would recommend to give their services to the different organisations under this Government, and I want to caution one contractor in particular,” he told the House. “I want that this Government sends a firm message to these contractors and let them know that whenever they misuse the taxpayers’ money and crash jobs, that the expense will be at them and not the taxpayers ’cause I’m a taxpayer too,” Rowe said.
   Expressing support for the Budgetary Proposals announced on Tuesday, he singled out the $32.5 million allocated to the Welfare Department and $2.6 million to the Child Care Board, saying they will benefit his constituents. He also approved of the $12.5 million allocated for crime prevention but
   said “much more needs to be done in order to help the youth in this country”.
   “I want to boldly say that we as politicians cannot only go out there and reach out to the young people when we want a vote. . . . we need to do more and create more opportunities for young people in this country. And I, as the representative for the constituency of St Michael North West, I can assure you that I will continue to fight for the youth and the betterment for the people in my constituency,” he pledged.
   (GBM)

   Source: Nation

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2. 

   TheOGazerts

   March 16, 2023 at 6:26 am

   
   

   Good morning,
   Just a reminder. Not meant as a negative comment.
   Wasn’t there some magic number of houses in 5 years.
   The calculation does not add up.

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