 state pensions tripled sr mary noel menezes to benefit state pensions tripled sr mary noel menezes to benefit state pensions tripled sr mary noel menezes to benefit webmaster thu 8302018 1228 cabinet recently approved the payment of a state pension to wellknown historian sr mary noel menezes minister of state joseph harmon said yesterday while announcing that there will be an increase in the maximum annual rate currently being paid speaking at a postcabinet press briefing harmon said cabinet saw menezes professor emeritus university of guyana ug as most deserving of a state pension he informed that cabinet also considered and approved a submission by the finance minister for an increase in the maximum annual rate of state pension from 120000 to 360000 he defended the increase saying that based on menezes experience and the quality of service she has given the sum that was being paid was very inadequate to at least maintain her in a decent state of life in her latter days menezes who last year launched a new book entitled guyana and the wider world which features a collection of her essays and addresses is in her late 80s when asked what qualifies a person for a state pension harmon referred reporters to the state pension act while saying that the details were not immediately available to him the act states in part that the president makes the determination having considered the nature and quality of service rendered to the state  source  https wwwstabroeknewscom 2018 news guyana 706 statepensionstrip  