2008 Parliamentary motion bears fruit

Jul 11, 2013 News

…first volume of Burnham speeches for House Library today

Speaker of the National Assembly, Raphael Trotman is today scheduled to receive the first volume of the published parliamentary speeches of late President Linden Forbes Sampson Burnham.
The event will be marked with a simple handing over ceremony, to be held at Parliament Building.
The first volume of speeches will be presented by Professor David Dabydeen, the Director of Caribbean Press that has published the compilation.
The decision to compile, edit and publish the speeches of all Presidents came about following the adoption of a Resolution in a parliamentary motion.
This resolution was passed by the National Assembly on August 7, 2008, after which the House took measures to have the verbatim records of the late Presidents compiled.
At the time the motion was piloted to give due recognition to Guyana’s first Executive President Forbes Burnham, 55 years after he first entered the National Assembly, then as a representative of the People’s Progressive Party in 1953 and 23 years after his death in 1985.
That motion had called on Members of the House to request the “National Assembly to designate a state institution to be responsible for historical research and documentation to chronicle and archive all of the works of each of the Presidents of Guyana for the benefit of future generations of Guyanese.”
At the time the motion had also called for the House to have commissioned full size portraits of each of the Presidents and have these displayed in its chambers and to designate a state institution to be responsible for historical research and documentation to chronicle and archive all of the works of each of the Presidents of Guyana for the benefit of future generations.
During the debate, different perspectives were shared on Burnham’s contribution to Guyana in the field of trade unionism, as a nationalist, a politician and a diplomat.
The motion had received the full support of both sides of the House and the debate chronicled the political involvement of Burnham in Guyana.
As a result of the motion, Clerk of the National Assembly, Sherlock Isaacs along with the Staff of the Parliament Office, transferred the hard copies of the verbatim records to soft copies and compiled the 1st volume of the Late President’s Speeches.
According to Speaker Raphael Trotman, “This is an ongoing project that began in the 9th Parliament and continues.”
To date, the Caribbean Press, under the directorship of Professor David Dabydeen, has printed, published and presented the speeches of former President Dr. Cheddi Jagan.
“And now we will be receiving the first installment of President Burnham’s outstanding speeches,” according to Speaker Trotman.

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