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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.



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  1. SWAT UNITED STATES says:

    And I’m entitled to use the VIP lounge.

  2. john brown UNITED STATES says:

    it seems like every tom dick and harry can use the vip lounge.

  3. caesar agustus UNITED STATES says:

    For those who illegally ran Guyana to destruction,their housing allowances should come from two sources. The Feed,Clothes,and House the Nation by 1976 pie in the sky fable,and money they invested in the so called hole in the wall National Co Op Bank for Defence Bonds.Or, be placed on a 12 month pension booklet like anyone else.



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