Dear Editor,
This year around May/June the public servants were awarded a 5% increase on their salaries and four thousand dollars per month to be added to their salaries as a temporary cost-of-living allowance for persons earning under fifty thousand dollars monthly until December this year.
The pensioners waited with bated breath to be told that they too would be awarded that four thousand dollars temporary cost-of-living allowance as the majority of pensioners receive under fifty thousand dollars per month. But alas, this was not to be and the poor pensioners are left to continue struggling with the rising food prices.
What a callous disregard for our senior citizens’ welfare and how unfair. Our President and Dr Luncheon always talk about fair and unbiased treatment for Guyanese citizens as a whole, but in this case, we the pensioners, have been glaringly ignored.
What else could happen now? Could someone else help me to champion the cause of the senior citizens in distress?
Yours faithfully,
James Elliot Holder
Pensioner
