By Admin. Updated 12:53 p.m., Saturday, October 28, 2023, Atlantic Standard Time (GMT-4).
Nurses, Nursing Assistants, and Nursing Aids in St. Vincent and the Grenadines will receive a 6-month nontaxable supplementary income from January 2024.
Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves made the announcement on October 27 during his 2023 Independence Address during the annual military parade at Victoria Park.
“As of January 2024, all Nurses, Nursing Assistants, and Nursing Aids will be paid, in addition to a regular salary increase which is already on the cards, they will be paid an additional monthly supplementary nontaxable income for an additional six-month period,” the prime minister said.
“The increase will amount to five (5) percent of their salary,” he added.
He said: “The increase is to ease certain specific challenges which they currently face”.
“We will conduct a review in this period, the first half of next year, with the aim to upgrade and reclassify these positions in the nursing profession. It is my intention, it is the government’s intention to big up the nurses in St. Vincent and the Grenadines,” the prime minister said.
The announcement was one of sixteen measures he announced in his 2023 independence address.
In December 2021, nurses across St Vincent and the Grenadines received an honorarium on their salary for December 2021.
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