EC$40,000 FOR CHIEF MINISTER

Anguilla’s Chief Minister and Minister of Finance, the Hon. Hubert Hughes, is to receive EC$40, 000 for telephone calls he made while serving in that position twelve years ago.

This is contained in the minutes of the Executive Council recorded at its meeting on December 29, 2011.
EX MIN 11/899, headed “Reimbursement of Telephone Bills to Hon Chief Minister”, stated that the Executive Council agreed that Mr. Hughes “should be reimbursed EC$40,000 for telephone bills incurred during the period November 1997 to March 2000.”

The necessary instruction to pay the Chief Minister was passed, by Executive Council, to the Permanent Secretary (Finance) and the Accountant General. The Executive Council’s minutes in which the matter is contained, was released by the Governor’s Office on Tuesday, this week, January 10.