Dear Editor,
I would like to see our opposition parties and our trade union movement represent workers who paid their contributions to the NIS for decades and who cannot collect the benefits they are entitled to when they retire.
Take the case of Indrawattie Gewan, mentioned in the letter column of KN of May 18; here is a woman who worked her whole working life in the education service and now in her retirement she cannot collect. That is a violation of her human rights. And I know Ms Gewan is one of many such cases. The GTUC and FITUG should represent Indrawattie and others like her.
Ms Gewan, unlike so many NIS casualties is bold enough to come forward to expose what the scheme is doing to her. She must be supported by the workers’ movements.
Yours faithfully,
W P George
