10% WAGE INCREASE PROMISE BY UNC

During the Election Campaigning of the United National Congress, Public Servants were promised no less than a 10 percent wage increase.

During the swearing in of her Cabinet, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar announced that her government will have to look into what is available in the Treasury, to see what could be spent.

The Former PNM-Administration had indicated that the country could not afford such a spend, which it said could cost around 18 billion dollars at the higher end.

Joining us live to weigh in on this is, President of the Seamen and Waterfront Workers Trade Union and General Secretary of the National Trade Union Centre Michael Annisette.