MPs receive hefty retroactive pay
Published:Friday | February 18, 2011 | 12:00 AM
MEMBERS OF the House of Representatives last month received a tidy sum in retroactive payments for upkeep and mileage allowances.
Sources told The Gleaner that parliamentarians received $30 million in retroactive payment at the end of January.
The legislators are to receive another tranche at the end of February.
State minister in the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service, Senator Arthur Williams, has confirmed that lawmakers had been paid retroactive amounts dating back to 2006.
Williams, in speaking to The Gleaner, sought to explain why members of parliament and a medical group had been paid retroactive sums recently.
He said the two were the longest outstanding groups owed money by the Government.