Former President Bharrat Jagdeo may have started to receive benefits entitled to him under the Former Presidents (Benefits and Other Facilities) Act, according to Cabinet Secretary Dr Roger Luncheon.
Asked by this newspaper at his weekly press conference yesterday whether Jagdeo had started to benefit under the law, Dr Luncheon would not give a definitive answer but indicated the former head of state was not complaining and as a result it should be believed he is benefitting.
“I think you better ask the former president that but as a pensioner myself, an NIS pensioner, I think that my pension is due and payable and it is being received so I have no doubt my acquiescence with the