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More ‘Fallen Comrades’ for Parliamentary recognition

Jun 25, 2012 News

The National Assembly will this week break into a somber tone when it meets to consider recognizing three more of its fallen comrades.
The 65 Members of Parliament will delve into the memories, contribution and legacies of the Late Sheila Holder, Everall Franklin and Robert Williams.
The motion remembering Everall Franklin who held the post of MP representing the Guyana Action Party is in the name of Deborah Backer, while the one for Holder is in the name of the Alliance for Change Chairman Khemraj Ramjattan. Basil Williams pilots the one for Robert Williams.
The motions are calling on the House to Resolve to pay tribute to the committed and meritorious service of the former Public Servants and “directs that an expression of our heartfelt sympathy be conveyed” to the sorrowing families. 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 was married to Noel Holder, an agriculturist, for the last 36 years, a union which 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 Khemraj Ramjattan, two leaders of the AFC, 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.
Former parliamentarian and leader of the Guyana Action Party (GAP) Everall Franklin passed away in late November last year after a period of illness.
He is credited with playing an important part in the drafting of fundamental documents of the Joint Opposition Parties which later morphed into A Partnership for National Unity.
Williams was Deputy Mayor of Georgetown at the time of his passing earlier this year and was 62. He was also a Commissioner at the Guyana Elections Commission but had been ailing for some time before his condition deteriorated.
Williams was a former Minister of Fisheries under the Forbes Burnham-led Peoples National Congress (PNC) administration in the early 1980s. During its last sitting the House also remembered the contributions of Dr. Moti Lall.

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