The elderly: broken promises

The Christmas season has traditionally been a time when we try to universalize our good fortune by ensuring that those less fortunate than ourselves, and particularly the elderly, are able to partake in the festivities and merriment. The end of 2016 had been pegged by the PPP/C government as the time by which all of the promises made in the 2012 Guyana’s National Report on Aging (GNRA), were to be fulfilled. Between September 12th and October 10th of 2012 this column carried five articles that, among other things,