What about a pension for public servants who served like Green?

Dec 06, 2016 Letters

Dear Editor,
Why would any Guyanese confer a pension equivalent to US $7,000.00 annually to Mr. Hamilton Green? If people are paid according to performance then Green ought to be paying Guyanese for his lopsided, backward, unpatriotic performances during his sojourn as an administrator. For starters, Mr. Green held numerous ministerial positions during the Burnham regime such as Works & Hydraulics, Agriculture, and the ineligible position of Minister of Sport in the Hoyte era. Even after the advent of a new PPP government, Mr. Green held on to the exalted office of Mayor of Georgetown.
For someone with a checkered past, he went quite far in the political field notwithstanding that his achievements—or lack thereof—placed Guyana in the doldrums of economic progress, to the point where many Guyanese became poorer. For Mr. Green to get taxpayers’ money is indeed devoid of rationale especially when under his mayorship the people of Guyana witnessed a rebirth of one of the seven wonders of the ancient world – a look at the gutters and the garbage in the city during his tenure as Mayor would make a visitor revolt.
Green is slated to receive $M1.4, the equivalent of US$7,000 monthly as a pension based on the Bill tabled in Parliament by the government. Many retired public servants who toiled for more than 30 years in the Public Service are receiving a pension of less than $100,000 monthly. This brings up the issue of the value and respect of public servants. Their salary is revised to become taxable above $60,000 – a truly sad day for Guyana. And most ministers have allocated a 50 percent increase in their salaries after being in office less than three months. Is this the beginning of a totalitarian state like what had existed before? It is rather unfortunate that Guyana has reached such a state.
Leyland Chitlall Roopnaraine

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