Public servants left to suffer

THE EDITOR: I would be grateful if you would publish this letter on behalf of us public servants who have not received our arrears increment.

Would the Prime Minister, Minister of Finance and the Minister of Public Administration, please tell us, suffering public servants, the truth about the non payment of our long overdue arrears of increment. To attempt to fool the nation, by putting the blame on public service bureaucracy, is to insult our intelligence, when the facts are that the Ministers (or more specifically the Ministry of Public Administration) do not have the funds to pay the money that is due to us.

How else can the Prime Minister (who said that we would have got the arrears since November 2002) justify the fact that many of us, who have applied for our arrears since last year and have met all the criteria for receipt of same, are just being fed all kinds of feeble excuses as to why we have not received what is rightfully ours? Imagine we are in the middle of April and no word yet as to when we can expect our money! Fellow sufferers! Join with me and write letters to the press! Embarrass the Govern-ment into paying us our dues immediately! Deny fix up deyself! Leh dem fix we up too!

JEAN PARRIS
Tunapuna