The Jamaican taxpayers are once again left to foot the bill of yet another government expenditure, this time $58 million is needed to cover the expenses of the West Kingston Compensation Committee.
The Government has indicated in the 2017-18 Estimates of Expenditure that it will spend $20 million on the activities of the committee in the upcoming financial year.
The provision is in addition to the $38 million that was allocated in the revised estimates that was tabled and passed in Parliament last month.
The three-member committee, which is chaired by retired Court of Appeal judge Seymour Panton, was established last October with a mandate to conduct hearings into claims for compensation from victims of the May 2010 West Kingston operation.
The government in its stipulations indicated that the committees work should not exceed nine months
