Prime Minister Samuel Hinds says that by statute, former presidents of Guyana are only entitled to a presidential pension and a housing allowance.
However, by cabinet’s decision they may also be provided with security, household support, overseas travel, transportation and utilities, the Prime Minister told members of the National Assembly on Monday.

Hinds also said that since her husband’s death, Mrs Joyce Hoyte, the widow of the late former president Hugh Desmond Hoyte, has received the statutorily authorized widow’s pension. She has also been provided with security.

AFC MP Raphael Trotman had asked the Prime Minister about the benefits that former presidents of Guyana are entitled to.

Further, he asked what benefits the former first lady had received since the death of her husband in December, 2002.