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Junior Minister Arnaldo Brown racks up million dollar Phone Bill

The government of Jamaica doesn’t appear to be cutting any corners when it comes to paying phone bills for Cabinet Ministers and their juniors.

In a recent report by RJR News, the shocking cell phone bill totals for several ministers were revealed.

The information was obtained via the Access to Information legislation.

Junior Minister Arnaldo Brown’s bill was the highest at $1.09 million for a twelve month period.

  

His bill for the month of June only was a whopping $410,000.

Below are the reported mobile bills (between July 2013 and this year) for some of the Ministers.

Junior Minister for Foreign Affairs, Arnaldo Brown- $1,090,000


Arnaldo Brown 410 000 million dollar phone bill
Junior Minister Arnaldo Brown – Image Source: jamaica-gleaner.com

Energy Minister, Phillip Paulwell: $930,000 (with two cell phones).


Junior Minister for Energy, Julian Robinson: $76,000


Minister of Health, Dr Fenton Ferguson: $749,000


Minister of Water, Robert Pickersgill: $791,000

  

Junior Minister Ian Hayles- $110,000


Tourism Minister Wykeham McNeill – $500,000


Junior Minister for Tourism Damion Crawford: $364,000


Minister of Local Government, Noel Arscott: $289,000


Minister of Foreign Affairs, AJ Nicholson: $230,000


Minister of State for Local Government, Colin Fagan: $200,000 (ten months)


Minister of Youth and Culture, Lisa Hanna: $45,000


Minister of Justice, Mark Golding: No Government phone


Minister of National Security,Peter Bunting: $32,000

  

Is too much money being spent to pay the phone bills for our ministers? Let us know in the comments.

Source: RJR News

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