Letters to the Editor

Thirty-one years’ pension wait is a long time

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. 

From a mother to the mother of the rape complainant

Dear Editor, I am a mother, just like you. I can imagine the pain and anguish you must be experiencing, that your child, your beloved daughter, should have undergone such a devastating, life changing occurrence; an experience that will remain with her and affect her for the rest of her life.

The former minister’s portrait was clearly visible

Dear Editor, The news item by an online site about the elections of the Lethem council (INews July 6), which was won unopposed by the incumbent, it was observed in the photograph of the new council, a framed official portrait of the former minister, with responsibility for local governance and regional development, was quite visible. 

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