Georgetown : In April 2011, the Central Executive Committee of the ruling party identified Ramotar as its Presidential Candidate.
Ramotar was born on the 22nd October, 1950 to Sam Ramotar a Timber Grant operator and Olive Constantine. He received his primary education at Caria Caria Congregational School and the St. Andrew’s Primary School and later pursued studies at the Government Technical Institute (GTI). He graduated from the Department of Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Guyana and also pursued studies in what was then the Former Soviet Union.
Having joined the PPP in 1967 he has been in the leadership of the party since 1979 when he was elected to the Central Committee. He became a member of the Executive Committee of the PPP in 1983 and assumed the position of Executive Secretary of the party one year after the PPP was restored to office in 1992.
He became the General Secretary in March 1997 when Dr. Cheddi Jagan passed away until now
He is married to Deolatchmee Ramotar and is the father of three children.
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