{"id":36359,"date":"2013-06-04T09:02:34","date_gmt":"2013-06-04T13:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=36359"},"modified":"2013-06-04T09:31:01","modified_gmt":"2013-06-04T13:31:01","slug":"erroneous-6000-state-minister-raise-granted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/06\/erroneous-6000-state-minister-raise-granted","title":{"rendered":"Erroneous $6000 State Minister Raise Granted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-36389\" title=\"monopoly\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/monopoly.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"281\" height=\"179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/monopoly.jpg 281w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/monopoly-150x95.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/monopoly-250x159.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 281px) 100vw, 281px\" \/>A $6,000 raise for state ministers \u2013 dismissed as nothing more than a \u201cclerical error\u201d by the cash strapped government in 2012 \u2013 was nevertheless granted, according to the 2013\/14 budget documents.<\/p>\n<p>In June of last year, Minister of State for Finance Michael Halkitis assured the public that a budget item raising the pay for junior ministers from $60,000 to $66,000 was just a mistake and would be corrected before the start of the fiscal year.<\/p>\n<p>But now, a year on, the salary for state ministers for 2012\/2013 was again listed as $66,000. The Tribune was unable to contact Mr Halkitis for clarification on whether this was yet another clerical error.<\/p>\n<p>The new budget also says the salary for state ministers will go back to $60,000 for the next fiscal year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A $6,000 raise for state ministers, dismissed as a \u201cclerical error\u201d, was granted and has still not been corrected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[93,263,40,134],"class_list":["post-36359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-corruption","tag-foolishness","tag-government","tag-money"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}