Dear Editor,
I was standing in line at the GPO to collect my princely sum of sixty-six hundred dollars when I saw an old woman trying to get in line to draw hers. Fortunately a man with long braids took her by the hand and solved her problem. We still have caring people about.
I raised this stipend matter with both Bishop Edghill and AA Fenty. They both agreed that sixty-six hundred dollars is absolutely inadequate to meet one’s daily/monthly expenses seeing how food prices have escalated plus water, electricity and telephone rates.
Even if Minister Manickchand increases the OAP to ten thousand dollars, this would still not suffice; the OAP should not be less than fifteen thousand per month. It would mean nothing to the finances of this country when you see the waste in their hare-brained scheme devised by some of the ‘brains’ the President has as advisers. We the old people who have done our part over the years in helping to uplift our country deserve better. Please get an amendment passed in Parliament and give us the increase.
Yours faithfully,
Victor Fitt
