Latest update December 23rd, 2024 3:40 AM
Ramotar appointed presidential advisor
PPP Presidential Candidate, Donald Ramotar
Former General Secretary and Presidential Candidate of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP), Donald Ramotar has been appointed political advisor to President Bharrat Jagdeo. This disclosure was made at a news conference yesterday by Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr. Roger Luncheon, at the Office of the President.
Ramotar was recently selected to lead the ruling People’s Progressive Party (PPP) in this year’s general elections.
An economist by training, Ramotar received his primary education at Caria Caria Congregational School and St. Andrew’s Primary. He later pursued studies at the Government Technical Institute and went on to become a graduate of the Department of Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Guyana. He also pursued studies in what was then the former Soviet Union.
Ramotar began his working career on his father’s timber grant. Between 1966 and 1975 he worked at GIMPEX, the commercial arm of the PPP. In 1975, he was appointed Manager of Freedom House, a position that he held for eight years. From 1983 to 1988, he served as a member of the Editorial Council of the magazine ‘Problems of Peace and Socialism’ and as the International Secretary of the Guyana Agricultural Workers’ Union (GAWU) between 1988 and 1993.
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.
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