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Honouring those past Guyanese Presidents
Dear Editor,
Recently, President David Granger, along with some senior PNC members and former WPA executives, who have since returned to their PNC fold, have been clamouring for all past Presidents to be recognised. This is good – even excellent – but why only now? What took them so long to realise that this must be done? Or, have they now found their long last love and loyalty for their past Presidents, who once belonged to the PNC party?
Former President L.F.S Burnham passed away since 1985 and the PNC remained in power until October 1992 under President Desmond Hoyte. It begs the question: why didn’t Hoyte and his PNC party recognise Burnham then? Then, after the 1992 elections, Hoyte became Leader of the Opposition. However, during his lifetime and up to this day, no one did anything for him. In fact, the only thing the PNC did for those past Presidents was to turn the beautiful Botanical Gardens into a burial ground with all the paraphernalia.
Bear in mind though the cremations that were done for former Presidents Dr Cheddi Jagan and his wife Janet Jagan were at a burial ground in Babu John – not a violation of any beautiful tourist or historical site or a place where parents would take their children for outings on weekends. Now that the PNC has awakened and learnt from the PPP how to show respect and recognition to their leaders, they want to play ‘follow pattern.’
Chandra Shekar Azad
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