FINANCE Minister Davendranath Tancoo and San Fernando East MP Brian Manning argued over government's promise in the 2025/2026 budget to give public servants a ten per cent wage increase.

Their argument took place during a meeting of the Standing Finance Committee of the House of Representatives on October 21 as it examined a budgetary allocation of $6,012,215,208 for the Social Development Ministry.

Manning, a former minister in the ministry of finance in the former PNM administration, asked Tancoo if there was any allocation in the budget to handle the promised ten per cent wage increase.