Raphael John-Lall

Last Fri­day, in a news­pa­per ad­ver­tise­ment, Fi­nance Min­is­ter Win­ston Dook­er­an stat­ed that Gov­ern­ment's lat­est com­pen­sa­tion pack­age of­fer to all pub­lic ser­vants through­out the en­tire pub­lic sec­tor would cost the trea­sury $1.25 bil­lion, in ad­di­tion to cost for al­lowances of $761 mil­lion for 2011.He added the wage bill for the pub­lic sec­tor would be ap­prox­i­mate­ly $8 bil­lion an­nu­al­ly rep­re­sent­ing 19 per cent of the coun­try's gross rev­enue.