Yesterday (Sunday) there was a service to recognize our elderly folk at Elmslie Memorial Church where many government officials were present, including Deputy Governor Franz Manderson and MLA Austin Harris who represented Premier Alden McLaughlin. He apologized for the Premier not being there as he is off Island on official business in Monaco.

The message was presented by Rev. Dr. Yvette Noble-Bloomfield and it was of excellent content where she decried why the expertise the elderly have obtained has been mostly ignored and little used.

Harris seemed to suggest the same thing in his speech when he thought the retirement age now raised to 65 should in fact be 70!

This should not be at the expense of any of the very small discounts senior citizens obtain here. I intentionally did not use the word 'enjoy'. There are precious few of those and most of us in this bracket are penalised especially from all the insurance companies.