MINISTER of Finance, Winston Jordan will today table a Pension Bill to the Clerk of the National Assembly Sherlock Isaacs with the intention of securing benefits for Guyana’s former Prime Minister Hamilton Green.

The Prime Minister Hamilton Green Bill, which is Bill No. 23 of 2016, has been crafted to provide a pension, benefits and other facilities to Green to enable him to live in keeping with the high office he occupied. Green served as Prime Minister of Guyana from 1985 to 1992 under the People’s National Congress (PNC) Administration.

In March 1993, Green reportedly sued the People’s National Congress for violation of his constitutional rights when he was expelled from the party. Following this he formed his own party, Good and Green Guyana (GGG).

It was while campaigning under the Good and Green Guyana in the 1994 Local Government Elections that Green was elected Mayor of the City of Georgetown–a post he held up until March 18, 2016.

In the absence of a Government pension, the Georgetown Mayor and City Council last August passed a motion to have the services of the City Constabulary Department extended to Green. The motion was moved Mayor, Patricia Chase-Green and seconded by Councillor, Heston Bostwick at statutory meeting.

The councillors had said that until a package becomes available from government, they would want Green to benefit from the services of security guards at his residence. Chase-Green said the former mayor served for 20 years in a succession and that his is a unique case. “At the end of this period, it will be up for discussion for any other mayor,” Chase-Green noted.