The ruling People’s Progressive Party (PPP) will hold its Congress from August 2 to August 4 in Berbice, the party announced yesterday.
The Congress is the highest decision body of the party and would be held at the J.C Chandisingh Secondary School in Berbice.
This is the first Congress the party would be holding without the presence of one of the Jagans – Cheddi and Janet- the main forces behind the founding of the party in 1950.
The Congress is held every three years. The last Congress was held in 2008 when former President Janet Jagan was still alive. She died the following year.
A Congress should have been held last year but was cancelled.
Clement Rohee, a member of the central executive committee, has been named the chairman of the organising committee for the congress.