Straughn: Pension money will keep coming

PENSIONERS HAVE BEEN reassured of the financial viability of the National Insurance Service and its ability to pay them.

It has come from Minister in the Ministry of Finance Ryan Straughn as he spoke Saturday night at the annual awards ceremony of the National Insurance Department, which is marking its 52nd anniversary.

“This department has received Government paper which will facilitate the repayment of monies owed by the Government of Barbados and ensure that the fund is no longer endangered by the kind of recklessness that obtained before,” he said during his feature address at the Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Centre.(HH)

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