Mr. Keith Bernard · September 11, 2026
Inauguration Address of H.E. Dr Mohamed Irfaan Ali, President and Commander-In- Chief- Cooperative Republic of Guyana – Office of the President, Guyana
...
# Inauguration Address of H.E. Dr Mohamed Irfaan Ali, President and Commander-In- Chief- Cooperative Republic of Guyana
admin August 8, 2020 5:07 pm
His Excellency Chan Santokhi Hon. Edmund Hinkson – Representative of the Your Excellencies of the Diplomatic Corps Prime Minister Mark Phillips Chancellor Members of Cabinet Chief Justice Heads of the joint Services Distinguished Invited Guests My brothers and sisters of Guyana,
...
Guyana who re
...
of our beloved
...
My story is similar to that of most of you. I came from humble beginnings, experiencing struggles, circumstances, and aspirations no different from yours.
Guardrails of democracy being kicked down - Kiskadee Watch
# Guardrails of democracy being kicked down
By Staff Editor Tue, September 8 2026, 2:06 AM GMT-4
...
What happened last week with government’s intensified attack on Azruddin Mohamed, Opposition Leader, particularly the event surrounding September 3, where he was arrested twice over spurious allegations, is further evidence the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) regime, with the support of the Guyana Police Force, is behaving maniacally, kicking down the guardrails of democracy.
...
The PPP has taken the decision
...
years that it
...
but is taking over every
...
. The regime is inserting loyalists who
...
beholden to the PPP
...
Even the police have taken the decision that the Opposition Leader, an elected/constitutional position, must be limited in his freedom to fulfil
...
role of his office. As Opposition Leader, Mohamed is more than entitled to move around the length and breadth of this country without fear or interruption to his travel and movement, whether in private or public capacity.
...
Guyanese should not take this act of the PPP regime lightly or for granted because it threatens not only Mohamed but every citizen whom the PPP perceives not to be in its camp. And, as history has shown, even those within its camp can suffer a similar fate.
Cheddi Jagan was born on March 22, 1918 on a sugar plantation in Port Mourant, Berbice, the son of indentured sugar workers. His parents Bachaoni (mother) and Jagan (father) had arrived in the then British Guiana as young infants with their mothers from the district of Basti in Uttar Pradesh, India. Both his grandmothers came as indentured immigrants in 1901 and were "bound" by five year contracts to different sugar plantations in the county of Berbice. Life was very hard and both his parents had to start working in the canefields at a young age to supplement the family income.
...
Trying to find a job after graduating high school,
...
almost impossible. The civil service was closed, to be a school teacher you had to become a Christian, something that his Hindu parents
...
have none of, and
...
of him working on the plantation
...
him to the United States
...
Cheddi Jagan at age 18
...
the USA
Cheddi Jagan left for the United States in September 1936 with two friends and returned to British Guiana in October 1943. He lived in Washington, D.C for two years and attended Howard University, taking a pre-dental course, worked two summers in New York and spent the last five years in Chicago, Illinois at Northwestern University.
...
Northwestern University for
...
But he was not satisfied to become only a dentist, he wanted to find to find out more about things going on in the world and enrolled in classes in social sciences. When he graduated from Northwestern University in 1942 with his degree in Dental Surgery (DDS), he also received his Bachelor of Sciences (B.Sc.) degree.
Wedding photo/ Janet Rosenberg age 21
...
Cheddi Jagan at work in
...
dental surgery.
...
Cheddi Jagan's first task was to establish
...
practice in Georgetown
...
wife Janet worked with him as the hygienist and office assistant. His fees were
...
as he did not want to exploit his patients but this led him into a public battle with the Dental Association for a principle he believed in. He
...
four of his
...
and one sister to live with them, so that they could further their education.
...
’s name began to spread in the sugar belt –coming from a sugar estate and as well a doctor who listened to ordinary people. On many occasions he would be invited by workers to speak and advise them on industrial matters in various parts of the sugar belt. Due to his increased contacts with workers, he became involved in the two trade unions in the sugar industry, one of them being the ManPower Citizen’s Association.
...
, H.J.M Hubbard, an avowed Marxist who was at that time the General Secretary of the British Guiana Trades Union Council, Ashton Chase assistant secretary in the British Guiana Labour Union, Janet Jagan who was at that time in the Clerical Workers Union, along with Cheddi Jagan formed the Political Affairs Committee and established a PAC Bulletin, with Janet as the editor. The PAC was labour oriented. All four were working in trade unions
...
Women's
...
and Economic Organisation headed by Janet Jagan, Winifred Gaskin and Frances Van Stafford, was
...
Janet and Cheddi Jagan ran as independent labour candidates -Janet contested in Georgetown and Cheddi on the East Coast of Demerara. Janet lost to John Fernandes, a businessman and catholic, who invoked the bogey of anti-communism, which was then becoming a popular weapon of the plantocracy.
Cheddi fought against some well-established people such as Frank Jacobs, a lawyer, and John D'Aguiar. The latter was clearly the most powerful as he had represented the constituency for some time, was wealthy and had enormous influence. Cheddi had worked among the sugar workers for some time and was assisted by Eusi Kwayana (Sidney King) and Ram Karran who lived in the constituency. His patience and dedicated work among the workers paid off. At the end of the count, Cheddi was declared the winner.
Desmond Hoyte, the former president of Guyana who began a thaw of his nation's socialist policies and ushered in a democratic transition to his opponents, died last Sunday in Georgetown, the capital. He was 73.
...
Mr. Hoyte became prime minister in 1985 on the death of his predecessor, Forbes Burnham, a socialist whose body was sent to Moscow for embalming. Guyana's cold-war embrace of leftist ideology had resulted in overwhelming government control of the economy.
...
Mr. Hoyte had been a Burnham protégé, but as president he gradually dismantled some of the isolationist policies of the nation -- which had been renamed the Cooperative Republic of Guyana after gaining independence from Britain in 1966.
...
Hugh Desmond Hoyte was born in 1929 into a middle-class Afro-Guyanese family in Georgetown, the capital of what was then British Guiana. After secondary school, he moved to Grenada to teach at the Grenada Boys' School. Later, he moved to Britain, where he was trained as a lawyer at