In his first ad­dress as Prime Min­is­ter on a po­lit­i­cal plat­form, Stu­art Young rub­bished claims that the gov­ern­ment was seek­ing to re­move the old age pen­sions of se­nior cit­i­zens.

The an­nounce­ment was one of sev­er­al promis­es put for­ward by Young dur­ing his fea­ture ad­dress at a Peo­ple's Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) meet­ing at the Mt Hope/ Mt Lam­bert Com­mu­ni­ty Cen­tre, off the East­ern Main Road, on Fri­day night.

Last De­cem­ber, Op­po­si­tion Leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar ac­cused the gov­ern­ment of in­tro­duc­ing leg­is­la­tion that would po­ten­tial­ly dis­qual­i­fy the el­der­ly from ac­cess­ing their pen­sions.