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Does former prime minister and current PNM leader Dr Keith Rowley find it unsettling that he left office with public servants having 2013/2014 salaries while the salaries and pensions of politicians and top managers in the public service were increased?

Rowley addressed this issue in response to a question posed by the Express last Wednesday in an interview at the party’s Balisier House headquarters, Port of Spain.

Rowley said: “The politicians and other public officers (falling under the Salaries Review Commission) did not get an equivalent consideration when public servants received six and a half billion dollars in backpay and a salary increase (in 2019). That doesn’t form part of your conversation. The UNC government (2010-15), as political gimmickry, knowing that there was not enough money to support that level of increase for public servants... the UNC on their way out of office made an offer to public servants....and left the government I led to pay for it....The revenue was not there ... So we had to go and borrow over six and a half billion dollars.”