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OBSERVER Newsco: Public servants have been reacting to possible salary increases for Cabinet ministers.<\/p>

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Prime Minister Gaston Browne revealed on the weekend that \u201cmany of my ministers, since last term, would have said to me that at some point we have to review the parliamentary pay\u201d.<\/p>\n

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The comment has provoked public servants to take to social media and the radio to also request a salary increase in tandem to any rise given to ministers.<\/p>

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The collective clamour is that nurses, teachers and police officers are also deserving of long-awaited pay rises.<\/p>

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In making a case for an increase, the Prime Minister argued that compared to the Cayman Islands, local parliamentarians do not make a sufficient wage.<\/p>\n

He also said that their salaries are \u201cless than a number of public servants\u201d in Antigua and Barbuda.<\/p>

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\u201cIf you had to do an analysis of work that ministers do, and in particular the pay, there are many who will argue that they\u2019re underpaid, based on the existing pay scales even in Antigua and Barbuda both in the public and private sectors,\u201d Browne said.<\/p>\n

However, he added that while increases can be considered, it would not be possible now and certainly not without also increasing the salaries of public servants.<\/p>

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