Many state employees are furious over the fact that they haven’t received their wages for May. Faisel Feller told Times of Suriname that nobody had informed him beforehand that he would not get his salary at the end of May. He claimed that he participated in the mandatory registration of state employees but that he had opted for the online registration. Due to a glitch in the system he never received a confirmation. Faisel is puzzled by the fact that his salary and the salaries of many other state employees were frozen. Many state employees who had opted for the online registration expressed their disappointment. “Now I do not have any income. I wonder how I am going to survive. Each month I have to pay SRD 3,500 to the landlord and I also have to cover the monthly costs. When I went to an ATM  I was shocked to find out that there was no money in my bank account because my salary has been frozen,” said a teacher. The state employees whose salaries have been frozen have two weeks to present their case. If their explanation is accepted, they will receive their wages again at the end of June. Some of the state employees explained that they were in the hinterland and that they therefore could not travel all the way to Paramaribo for the registration. “It is an expensive two way trip to Paramaribo and back so we opted for the online registration. But we never received a confirmation email after we had filled in all of the documents on the internet. Why didn’t the various ministries inform their employees of the fact that the wages of those who failed to get registered would be frozen?”…[+]