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APNU’s Linden official dies suddenly
By Enid Joaquin
Shock and dismay enveloped residents of Linden, Region Ten and the wider political circle across Guyana, as news spread of the sudden passing of APNU Chairperson and political stalwart Sandra Adams.
Ms Adams reportedly suffered a massive heart attack. She was recently hospitalised, and discharged for a heart related condition.
Adams had served as the Region 10 Campaign Manager for the APNU+AFC coalition at the last elections. She was also a Member of Parliament for the People’s National Congress.
Her last message to Lindeners was on 104.3 Power Fm on New Year’s Day when she took the opportunity to wish her colleagues, residents, family and friends a happy and progressive New Year.
Chairman of Region Ten, Rennis Morian, reflecting on Adams’s passing said that it was a devastating loss for the APNU+AFC coalition. Replacing her would be a monumental challenge. Adams was a serving Councillor with the RDC up to the time of her death, Morian said,
“She was very committed to whatever task or challenge she took on, and I personally feel that she had plunged back too soon into work after her recent hospitalisation. But that was the woman; once she started anything she had to see it through. We have indeed suffered a huge loss.”
Died suddenly: Sandra Adams
Adams had made her last official appearance on Saturday at the turning of the sod for the Region Ten Passport Office in Retrieve. She had commended Minister Winston Felix for the initiative.
Adams had said that upon acceding to the office of Minister of Citizenship one of the first things that the Minister would have done was to establish a passport office in Linden….
“From the time he would have taken office he has been pursuing the idea of the decentralisation of necessary facilities and ministry operations in all of the Regions.
So the first thing he would have done was to open an office at the NIS building here in Linden.
And now he is moving it one step further by (setting) up a complete office where you can have your new applications done, citizenship applications done and eventually your birth certificates.”
Adams had said that this meant that the people of Linden and Region Ten would finally no longer have to travel to Georgetown to access such services.
These would be readily available cheaper. The cost of travel and food would be eliminated, as well as the hassle. That would be bringing the good life to the people.
Commenting on the passport office, she said, “Some people might see this as a very small gesture but I see it as a big gesture.
“I most anxiously await it, because when we get on our campaign trail I can say it was a promise made and a promise delivered.”
Meanwhile, President David Granger in a public message said that he is saddened.
“Ms. Adams was a dedicated public servant, community organiser and political activist. She served as the Assistant National Director of the Community Development Council in the Ministry of Communities.
“She was the Principal Political Secretary and member of the Central Executive Committee of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) and also the Regional Chairman of the Party’s Upper Demerara- Berbice Region.”
She was also a part of the National Assembly as a regional member of Parliament from 1997 to 2006. The Ministry of the Presidency said that Adams was born and raised in the mining town of Linden, attending Mackenzie High School.
“Apart from her community work and political activism in the Upper Demerara- Berbice Region, she also worked as a former administrator of Duncan International Shipping and a supervisor of Voices of Praise International Radio, Brooklyn, New York.
In May 2017, she was the recipient of a National Award- the Medal of Service – for her long and outstanding service in social and community affairs in the Upper Demerara-Berbice Region and as a parliamentarian,” the ministry disclosed.
“His Excellency extends heartfelt sympathy to the children Deron Montrose and Delroy Anthony, grandchildren, Dericia and Dariana Anthony, siblings, Valerie Patterson-Yearwood, Frank Mackenzie, Marilyn Sinclair, Robert, Berthyle, Royston and Marcia Adams and the relatives and friends of Sandra Michelle Adams.”
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