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Do not treat pensioners’ like this!

Sep 06, 2016 Letters

Dear Editor,
The introduction of the two speedboats at the Berbice River after the officials of the Berbice Harbor Bridge refused to reduce the tolls for vehicles was a great relief to the commuters. As a result, many people jump at the opportunity and use the service and they save money and get to move around very fast, in other words, it reduces a great burden. Incidentally the people were shocked to be informed that on Thursday 01st the boats have to start operation from 6am to 9:30 am, then they break off to start from 2:30pm to 5pm instead of working the whole day as they used to work before.
Meanwhile, the tolls at the Berbice Bridge are still the same so if the commuters have to use the Bridge, they would have to pay a huge difference. Is this the vision the Government has for the people? Do they have any consideration for the people? Next week school reopens and the commuters would increase tremendously and instead they are increasing the travelling burden instead of decreasing it.
Presently, there’s a commercial informing the pensioners that their old ID card would not be valid from next year for them to collect their pension and the deadline is the 3rd.The ad stated that the new ID card would have 9 digits (numbers). The commercial was so poorly constructed that many people believe that they have to get registered again and many pensioners visit their respective registration offices, some travel very far (miles) only to be informed that those who have ID cards with the nine digits do not have to register again. Some people have two ID cards and they are using the older ID card which has seven digits and is being used to draw their pension. All they have to do is photocopy the new ID card with the nine digits and take it into the closest NIS office and they would make the changes. This irresponsible attitude causes great discomfort to pensioners but again, it seems as if no one cares.
Finally Editor, the way the officials were carrying on about the oil in Guyana, a lot of people were under the impression that when the rigs started to work everything would be all right. In other words, they are acting as if the oil is the savior for Guyana. I am guessing that the officials of the oil company saw that the Guyanese public were being misled, thus they informed the public about how many people would be employed (which is low) and what is basically some of the requirements for getting employed.
I’m quite sure that the officials were very annoyed but I’m sure their brains are ticking to come up with some concoctions again to mislead the public because of their poor performance so far. Guyanese have to be wary of them because since coming into power they cannot fulfill their promises and instead of making people’s livelihood better, they are making it harder and making their lives better; fulfilling their needs. Meanwhile we are waiting for the investors and job creations that they were talking about before the last elections whilst they are going about mismanaging Guyana.
Sahadeo Bates

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