Latest update April 12th, 2026 12:50 AM
Tributes continue to pour in as….Sheila Holder to be buried today
Alliance for Change (AFC) executive member, Cathy Hughes, will represent the party at the funeral
Sheila Holder
of founder member of the AFC, Sheila Holder, today in the Cypress Hills Cemetery, Queens, New York.
Sheila Holder lost the battle against intestinal cancer in New York last Sunday.
According to leader of the AFC, Raphael Trotman, Mrs. Holder’s family is honouring her wishes to be buried in New York. The burial will follow a thanksgiving service celebrating her life at the Church of St. Mark Episcopal/Anglican in Brooklyn.
In addition a Memorial Service, details of which will be announced later, will be held in Guyana for Mrs Holder.
Locally, tributes are continuously pouring in for the former Parliamentarian and consumer affairs advocate.
Holder, 65, was named Prime Ministerial Candidate for AFC but was forced to step down due to her illness. Before leaving Guyana, Holder was hospitalised several times, twice for surgery.
She served in the National Assembly as an AFC Member of Parliament (MP), where she was renowned for her positive contributions. Her most recent of projects was the campaign financing motion which was tabled in the House ahead of this year’s General and Regional Elections.
A book of condolences is currently open at the AFC Headquarters in Campbellville, Georgetown.
Holder, a former parliamentarian for both the AFC and Working People’s Alliance (WPA), was described as a homemaker, civil society activist, consumer advocate and politician, who has been married to Noel Holder, an agriculturist and CEO of i-net Communications Inc for the last 36 years, a union which has produced two sons and a daughter.
Holder entered the National Assembly in 2001 on a GAP-WPA ticket and was a member of the Parliamentary Management Committee, the committee for the appointment of members of constitutional commissions, and the Standing Orders Committee.
Along with Trotman and Ramjattan, she participated in the World Bank Seminar on Parliament, Good Governance and Poverty Reduction in Helsinki, Finland, in 2003. It was during this time that she was contracted by the OAS to prepare a study on “Political Party Campaign Financing” in Guyana.
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