Political stalwart Sandra Adams laid to rest

Jan 14, 2018 News

Sandra Michelle Adams was yesterday interred at the Bamia Cemetery after a funeral service at the Mackenzie Sports Club Ground.
Among those in attendance were President David Granger and First Lady Sandra Granger; Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs Basil Williams; Adams’s elder sister and Minister within the Ministry of Communities Valerie Adams-Yearwood and Minister within the Ministry of Health Volda Lawrence. There were other key Government and Regional Officials.
Throughout the funeral service Adams was praised and recognized for her hard work and commitment to the APNU Party, and her selfless work to help improve the quality of life of Linden and Region Ten residents.
Among those paying tributes to the PNCR stalwart was President David Granger.
The President, reflecting on Adams’s passion for getting things done, alluded to the Region Ten party office which was rehabilitated last year. He said that Adams mobilized $8.5M to effect the renovation of the Building.
“I don’t know how she did it but it was done. I want to see more Sandras!!”the President declared.
President Granger recalled his first meeting with Adams where she told him that all she wanted to do was work for the party and that she was not looking for position or power.
He said that she came back (to Guyana) with a lifelong record of service.
She was elected a member of the National Assembly in 1997 the President noted.
Adams later left Guyana for personal reasons but came back and bore the burden of the highest per capita support for the APNU at the last elections, he added.

The crowd at the funeral for Sandra Adams

Citing her credentials as impeccable, he pointed out that her receipt of the Medal of Service was not an inducement but was a reward.
In other tributes Adams was described as “ferociously committed to the Party, a tower of strength, affable, dynamic, eloquent and vocal.”
Sandra Michelle Adams was born on November 18, 1970. She died January 2, last.
Regional Chairman Rennis Morian in an interview shortly after her passing said that her imminent replacement would be a monumental task. (By Enid Joaquin)