APNU leader David Granger yesterday denounced the government’s arbitrarily imposed 5% wage hike announced for public service workers, while Georgetown Public Hospital nurses and Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) workers both staged protests over the increase.
Cabinet Secretary Dr Roger Luncheon on Wednesday announced that public service employees will be receiving a 5% increase retroactive to January 2013.
The increase fell short of what the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) had earlier proposed—a 25% increase for public