00:00They don't have the money, man. If you don't have the money, get the hell out of there and we will find the money to pay the workers. Get the hell out of there. Move! Move! Move and let me pass! Move and let me pass! Go! You have to go!
00:17A blistering admonishment from the UNC's political leader last evening after the newly appointed finance minister made a public announcement on Wednesday that the country cannot afford to pay the wage increments being proposed by the UNC.
00:32Proposals are also being made in the public domain, not by this government, to commence public sector wage negotiations at a 10% increase, which could cause taxpayers between $6 billion in back pay, $6 and $7 billion in back pay.
00:50While if you take it up the higher level of 14% to 15%, that would increase the amount of between $8.5 to $10 billion in back pay alone.
01:01How will this balloon fiscal deficit of close to $20 billion be financed? Definitely not through the fiscal accounts.
01:10While some view the finance minister's statements as reasonable, all Passat possesses sees is an admission of failure on the part of the PNM.
01:21Take note, the PNM minister of finance is saying nothing for workers over the next five years. On the 28th, vote them all out. Vote them out.
01:31We are saying there was money and there still is money to pay workers a fair salary and they're back paying.
01:46Passat possesses is also pledging to bring back the baby grant and to pay out over $100 million to former keen farmers.
01:54Tonight I commit, the U.N. will pay the keen farmers the entire outstanding sum of $110 million due to them.
02:08Renasa Cutting, TV6 News.
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