With many pensioners across the country having to wait for hours in long lines at local post offices to cash their monthly pension vouchers, some are calling for new arrangements, including payments through the bank.
At minutes before noon yesterday, Hyacinth Jules, 81, told Stabroek News that she had been at the Bourda Post Office since 7.30 am and was still waiting to collect her pension. She and many others were in a line at the post office.
“I come here since 7.30 and they give me a number 93 but I still can’t get my pension as yet. I am sitting here waiting to go in. Every month we have to wait long hours to collect our pension. It is not easy for us,” she lamented.
Jules explained that while she understands that
