ORANJESTAD - According to the Board of Aruba Financial Supervision (CAft), the Policy Plan for Reducing Personnel Expenses (BVP) has led to too few visible cutbacks. The Aruban government is asked to re-implement the measures.
Mike Eman, AVP party leader, indicates that the government does not adhere sufficiently to the agreements to achieve sustainable public finances. He bases this on the letter from the CAft. According to Eman, Prime Minister Evelyn Wever-Croes is playing an unfair game in the discussion about the 12.6 percent withheld from civil servants' salaries.
“The BVP created by the Wever-Croes cabinet in 2018 is intended to prevent a financial instruction. This included the measure to minimize the hiring of new people, reduce the number of civil servants employed by not renewing contracts, stop renewing the contracts of retirees and fire those who did not do their jobs well," said the AVP faction leader. This would save almost 49 million guilders in three years. Eman indicates that the problems with the Netherlands started when these plans were not realized.
“At the beginning of the pandemic, Wever-Croes took advantage of the feelings and solidarity by coming up with the proposal of the 12.6 percent. As a result, thousands of civil servants, teachers and semi-government workers have been in trouble," Eman said.