Dear Editor,
With CARICOM celebrating now its 50th anniversary, this nonagenarian who was the first Chief of Personnel of the Secretariat, and possibly the oldest pensioner – from 1992, had hoped that the Pension Committee which reports to the Secretary-General would by now have placed as the last item on the meeting’s item the two-year old petition for an increase on a thirty-one year old pension – indeed the principle of which three of us had discussed with the current Secretary-General as far back as when the latter was the Deputy. It is now clear however that no kind of submission was made. Thirty-one years is a long time, if not some sort of record (for this organisation at least) to survive on the same support sum, moreso in these traumatic times. Two years should also be a record waiting period for a non-response, with which one hopes readers could sympathize
Sincerely,
E.B. John
A CARICOM Secretariat Nonagenarian
