I wish to voice my disappointment that the recipients of the retirement benefits from National Insurance got no increase in the budget. I expected the retirement benefit, after paying national insurance premiums since the inception of the scheme, would have been harmonised with the Government old age pension of $3,500 per month.
We must remind the Government that it did not contribute to this scheme. Our employers paid two thirds and we, the employees, paid one third.
This is most unfair that we have been treated as chopped liver. We have to buy the same green fig that used to be four cents per pound in 1954 but which is now $4 per lb in 2014–a 10,000 per cent increase.
R Ackbarali,
Petit Bourg