Georgetown : The methodology used by the late President Dr. Cheddi Jagan to approach national issues is more relevant than obsolete to many of the challenges facing Guyana today.
This was thestatement of President Donald Ramotar while speaking at Babu John on the occasion of the 15th death anniversary of the late President and co-founder of Guyana’s first national party, the People’s Progressive Party (PPP).
“Comrade Cheddi wrote and spoke of many of the developments that are taking place today and, he predicted many of them. He was able to do that because he took a scientific view of politics and developments generally,” President Ramotar said.
Addressing a large gathering on a platform obliquely opposite the late President’s crematorium site,at Port Mourant, the Head of State said the same wave of criticisms Cheddi Jagan faced for the establishment of the University of Guyana, the Bank of Guyana, Black Bush Polder and the conversion of the National Park, is being manifested today .
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General Secretary of the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers' Union (GAWU), Komal Chand, in referring to the famous words of Dr. Jagan, “in unity lies our strength” said they are very much relevant as he pointed to the late leader's policy that the rich resources of Guyana belong to the people and, should be developed and worked for the wellbeing of the people and the country.
Prime Minister Samuel Hinds recalled the first time Dr. Jagan made an indelible mark in his life with the 1962 budget speech where he implored all Guyanese to work towards developing Guyana and had introduced a savings fund to pursue development projects.
Among the highlights of the death anniversary was a wreath laying ceremony at the cremation site, the reading of excerpts of Dr. Jagan’s famous speeches by students of the Lower Corentyne and the JC Chandisingh Secondary schools, a poem by Peter Jailall from the Association of Concerned Guyanese and a calypso by the Mighty Kendingo.
Dr. Jagan passed away on March 6, 1997.
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