IN ONE STATUTORY corporation alone, Government is paying almost 80 workers for jobs they cannot perform while also battling cases where employees are on sick leave for as many as 300 days in a year.
But this could be just the tip of the iceberg in the public service and state-owned corporations.
The matter came to light on Friday night during debate in the House of Assembly on a $9.2 million supplementary for the Ministry of the Environment as the amount assigned in the 2016/2017 Estimates fell short.
Minister of the Environment Dr Denis Lowe revealed that $6 million was going to pay wages and salaries for Sanitation Service Authority (SSA) employees for the period January to March 2017, as well as pay down on money owed to the National Insurance Scheme. An additional $3.1 million is going for a similar purpose to the National Conservation Commission (NCC).
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