Deputy Premier of Nevis the Honorable Mark Brantley in a recent FB blog commended the Team Unity Government on the announcement of a double salary for civil servants and pensioners which he said came after two years of Unity “after 2 years of Unity and after stellar economic performance in St. Kitts and Nevis, our Prime Minister announced a double salary for all civil servants and pensioners”.
Brantley said “PM Harris and this Unity government are offering an additional payment to hardworking civil servants because of the good out turns in the economy which they helped to ensure. There is no election in sight. This is genuinely about giving back to the people and showing the Government’s appreciation for their hard work.”
But on Wednesday’s edition of Freedom Fm’s Issues the former Prime Minister and opposition leader Dr Denzil Douglas responded to Mark Brantley’s claim that the former Douglas government had given a double salary 6 times in 20 years, and that all were associated with an election. Dr Douglas said double salaries were not necessarily paid before an election, and indicated that Brantley was condemning himself, as local elections would be held in Nevis in the first 6 months of 2017, and that “Harris has assisted by paying a double salary to achieve whatever he wants to see achieved in terms of the CCM led NIA.
Douglas chided Brantley by asking “if Brantley would be taking home a double/double or quadruple salary” in December amounting to some $80,000.00 when” there are so many people in St. Kitts-Nevis who cannot even get one salary”.