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toubab1020
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 Posted - 18 Oct 2014 : 21:41:20
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Minimum living wage for working Gambians ! 
Read the Foroyaa article,politicos are invited to POST THEIR OWN OPINIONS,no? never mind just wait until someone else does it !!!!
http://www.foroyaa.gm/archives/1913#more-1913
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"Simple is good" & I strongly dislike politics. You cannot defend the indefensible.
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kobo
United Kingdom
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Posted - 19 Oct 2014 : 21:52:37
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SALARIES AND THE TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE JULY 22ND COUP
FOROYAA EDITORIAL Published October 17, 2014
GRADE 1 CLEANERS 11,938 DALASI PER ANNUM 995 DALASI PER MONTH
GRADE 12 DIRECTORS 74000 DALASIS PER ANNUM 6166 DALASIS A MONTH
It is claimed that many people had predicted that the government would not be able to pay salaries if it maintained power after the coup. Those who made such a claim may not have known how his government is run. No government will ever be unable to pay salaries. What governments could be accused of is inability to significantly increase public sector employment and salaries of public servants or pay pensioners their full pension.
For 20 years public servants could not go beyond the following pay scale
Grade 1-D995 Dalasis per month;
Grade 2-D1185 Dalasis per month;
Grade 3 D1266 Dalasis per month;
Grade 4-D1416 Dalasis per month;
Grade 5-D2268 Dalasis per month;
Grade 6-D 2596 Dalasis per month;
Grade 7-D2844 Dalasis per month;
Grade 8-D3438 Dalasis per month;
Grade 9-D4069 dalasis per month;
Grade 10-D4702 dalasis per month;
Grade 11-D5511 dalasis per month and
Grade 12-D6212 dalasis per month.
In the face of skyrocketing prices and stagnant salaries, how could quality of life of the people improve? |
Edited by - kobo on 19 Oct 2014 21:53:44 |
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toubab1020
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Posted - 19 Oct 2014 : 23:14:59
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Thanks Kobo I read the figures and I assumed that these are the current rates of pay and responded as such, I thought afterwards,this cannot be ,pleased you posted,I am unable to dig any further with this because never working in Gambia and the reluctance of Gambians to give any accurate information on personal money matters I remain in the dark perhaps with your experience you may be able to turn the light on into some of the darker corners of wage structures that exist in the Gambia of TODAY.I totally understand that jobs of any kind are rare and that VAST numbers of Gambians rely on maybe one working member to support an extended family.It is true to say that Tourists provide a big slice of Gambian jobs,these are mostly in the season though and staff have to accept that their "services will not be required out of season" so no job no money.
[quote]Originally posted by kobo
SALARIES AND THE TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE JULY 22ND COUP
FOROYAA EDITORIAL Published October 17, 2014
GRADE 1 CLEANERS 11,938 DALASI PER ANNUM 995 DALASI PER MONTH
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"Simple is good" & I strongly dislike politics. You cannot defend the indefensible.
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Edited by - toubab1020 on 19 Oct 2014 23:16:14 |
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toubab1020
12314 Posts |
Posted - 22 Oct 2014 : 01:01:16
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And more about Doctors and Nurses wages, sorry Salaries.
SNIPPET:
THE PEOPLE IN THE HEALTH SECTOR
Doctors Grade 10 58000 to 64 000 dalasis annually 5000 Edward Francis Small Teaching Hospitaldalasis a month
Senior Nursing Officer 0n grade 9 D4069 a month
Nurse midwife grade 8 D3438 a month
Enrolled nurse grade 6 D2596 a month
http://www.foroyaa.gm/archives/1962#more-1962
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"Simple is good" & I strongly dislike politics. You cannot defend the indefensible.
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Edited by - toubab1020 on 22 Oct 2014 11:33:29 |
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Momodou
Denmark
11828 Posts |
Posted - 22 Oct 2014 : 11:51:48
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Real sorry salaries |
A clear conscience fears no accusation - proverb from Sierra Leone |
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toubab1020
12314 Posts |
Posted - 22 Oct 2014 : 11:52:44
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The postings on this topic are all about a living wage,Cleaners Civil Servants,Doctors and nurses all these folk serve the Gambian population who themselves have limited money.
Gambia has limited export potential at the moment if such potential was enhanced then the country would get more money instead of selling sunshine related items like tourism,very limited markets exist for anything MANUFACTURED OR GROWN.
I know NOTHING about economics and would welcome some comment from a Bantaba in cyberspace reader who could tell us his or her ideas on how to resolve the economic problems that beset Gambia now,any takers? |
"Simple is good" & I strongly dislike politics. You cannot defend the indefensible.
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toubab1020
12314 Posts |
Posted - 22 Oct 2014 : 20:40:51
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Politicians joining in now,great chance here for more votes !
Snippet:
The Gambia, was organised by the Minister of Trade, Industry, Regional Integration and Employment (MOTIE), Gambia Investment and Export Promotion Agency (GIEPA), American Chamber of Commerce, and the US Embassy in Banjul.
As a comprehensive international trade development initiative for sub-Saharan African countries, AGOA strongly complements The Gambias strategic drive towards export competitiveness and performance particularly in the US Markets, Minister Jobe said.
He added that the underlying motive of international trade development through AGOA, to a large extent, is to augment foreign exchange earnings from exports and improve livelihoods of the general citizenry of beneficiary countries by way of employment creation and increased income for locals through exports into the US thus impacting on poverty reduction.
Trade opportunities under AGOA are enormous, but the challenge remains on the ability of local businesses to access and fully benefit from AGOA, the minister noted.
While The Gambia has been an eligible member of AGOA since 31December 2002, the country has not really been able to fully utilize the trade and export opportunities inherent in AGOA."
Maybe with a little extra assistance from the participants at this meeting things may progress,as I wrote above very little movement has taken place over the years in EXPORT related opportunities for Gambia,this could well be attributable to what the minister referred to as, "the challenge remains on the ability of local businesses to access and fully benefit from AGOA," Perhaps many in the Gambian population are unable to export any of their work or produce due to the cost of shipping it to foreign countries where are these poor people able to access the money to pay shipping companies ? Ah Yes......that could be a BIG problem,who would pay this cost ?
I have no idea, let's just wait and see if the meeting with those involved have thought of this problem and found a way to deal with it.
http://thepoint.gm/africa/gambia/article/agoa-complements-gambias-export-drive-trade-minister |
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"skyrocketing prices and stagnant salaries,"
