USP: Invisible “savings” from 12.5% cuts do nothing for socioeconomic hardships. | SMN NEWS

cecilnicholas20122021PHILIPSBURG:--- President of the board of the United St. Maarten Party (USP) Cecil Nicholas on Monday said his board is baffled over why to date the mandatory 12.5% cut imposed by government on civil servants and workers of government-owned companies, specifically GEBE and Telem, has not been followed up with an instruction to ensure that the “savings” be used as a supplement to directly offset the bills of every citizen in the country. He added: “Obviously because the savings, a motivation used to impose the cuts, have not materialized and people's lives were made harder for nothing.”

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