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May 07, 2009 Letters

Dear Editor,
The Presidents Benefits Bill 2009 is a recipe for trouble and confusion.
Let’s say the President after retirement decides to open a private business. His home is built in the same compound or is adjoined. The electricity, water and phone bills could be claimed for this business because the President also lives there.
He can request a fleet of 100 vehicles to be maintained by the state. Then if the President decides to change four wives all of them having other children and other dependents, then the state will have to stand medical bills for all of them.

Then there is the manipulation of the presidential position. One president can step aside so another can take up the presidency. We can very well have 10 former presidents by 2016. I have seen this manipulation before and no doubt it can be a route which unscrupulous politician can use for selfish reasons. It happened with the current President and Prime Minister Sam Hinds. Mr. Sam Hinds is already a former president.
This country is too poor to afford this Bill. I wish Dr. Jagan was alive to see how his lean and clean government has degenerated. With VAT, the CLICO fiasco and the now presidential burden, there can never be any money left in the treasury to buy sweets for the kids.
C. Woolford

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