{"id":9555,"date":"2016-06-21T15:52:33","date_gmt":"2016-06-21T19:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=9555"},"modified":"2016-06-22T01:36:24","modified_gmt":"2016-06-22T05:36:24","slug":"pay-hikes-proposed-for-pm-cabinet-opposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/?p=9555","title":{"rendered":"Pay hikes proposed for PM, Cabinet, Opposition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em> By Richard Lord<br \/>\nJune 21, 2016 &#8211; <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.tt\/news\/2016-06-21\/pay-hikes-proposed-pm-cabinet-opposition-0\">guardian.co.tt<\/A><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blogimg\/parliament2.jpg' width='150' height='100' border='0' class='alignleft' alt='Parliament' \/>Fresh moves are underway to increase the salaries of the Prime Minister, cabinet ministers, the Opposition Leader and all other MPs.<\/p>\n<p>This is as a Salaries Review Commission (SRC) consultant met with senior Government and Opposition MPs last week to initiate the process for the hike.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nAmong those who attended the one-hour meeting, which was held in Parliament last week, were House Speaker Bridgid Annisette-George, Senate President Christine Kangaloo, Finance Minister Colm Imbert, Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi, Planning and Development Minister Camille Robinson-Regis, Rural Development and Local Government Minister Franklin Khan, Works and Transport Minister Fitzgerald Hinds and Opposition MPs Ganga Singh, Dr Bhoendradatt Tewarie and Ramona Ramdial.<\/p>\n<p>An employee of the Hays Group solicited the views of those present on the need for a pay hike.<\/p>\n<p><em><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.tt\/news\/2016-06-21\/pay-hikes-proposed-pm-cabinet-opposition-0\">Full Article : guardian.co.tt<\/A><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Richard Lord June 21, 2016 &#8211; guardian.co.tt Fresh moves are underway to increase the salaries of the Prime Minister, cabinet ministers, the Opposition Leader and all other MPs. This is as a Salaries Review Commission (SRC) consultant met with senior Government and Opposition MPs last week to initiate the process for the hike.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,1,178,217,30,1106,142],"tags":[834,144,60,1015,49],"class_list":["post-9555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance","category-general-tt","category-media","category-parliament","category-pnm","category-recession-finance","category-unc","tag-guardian","tag-kamla-persad-bissessar","tag-keith-rowley","tag-politics","tag-tt-govt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9555"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9557,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9555\/revisions\/9557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trinidadandtobagonews.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}