A series of irregularities in the payment of old age pensions have been discovered and the police and members of the Auditor General’s Office and the Accountant General’s department have been called in to investigate.
In a joint release last evening, the Ministry of Labour, Human Services and Social Security and the Guyana Post Office Corporation (GPOC) said that “through diligently observing evaluation processes put in place to ensure the integrity of the old age system, they have this week detected some irregularities in the payment of sums as old age pensions.”
According to the release, “the initial departmental investigations reveal an attempt by public officers to rob the
