And chicken isn't the only thing going up - the living and entertainment allowances for the government CEO's have also increased - or rather, been restored. They'd come into office during the pandemic, and had agreed to maintain the 50% allowance cut implemented by the Barrow Administration for the previous set of CEO's.
And that was what the Leader of the Opposition emphasized today - he explained that the current CEO's never really got a cut, they signed on to $750 as their living and entertainment allowance. Meanwhile, as you heard from the president of the PSU, the public officers had to sacrifice their increments as well as 10% of their salary.
And today, leader Shyne Barrow insisted that CEO's should not be getting this increase in allowance while the public officers' increments are still frozen. In addition, he doesn't believe the CEO's should be making more money than those elected to the House of Representatives.
Here's how he put it today during the UDP's press conference:
And second deputy of the party, Beverly Williams - formerly a CEO herself - also spoke on this matter, demanding that the government should find a way to give back what is owed to the public officers:
