On budgets and growing old

It is my habit to leave weightier issues like National Budget Analyses to those much better qualified. However, as a citizen on the cusp of being plunged into the heart of the category of the Guyanese elderly, I, never-the-less, was on the watch for a hoped-for provision of this year’s Estimates and Expenditure as presented by the still very young Finance Minister.

You see, I do read Sunday Columnist Dr Ian McDonald on “Growing Old”; before and after my offer to contribute to the work of the local National Commission on the Elderly was met with studied indifference, I read up a lot on the issue of ageing; then I zoned in months