Government supports opposition motion in Guyana
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| Published on Monday, August 11, 2008 |
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By Oscar Ramjeet
Caribbean Net News Special Correspondent
Email: oscar@caribbeannetnews.com
GEORGETOWN, Guyana: The governing People's Progressive Party (PPP) on Thursday night supported a motion by People's National Congress (PNC) opposition leader, Robert Corbin, recognising former President Forbes Burnham for his extraordinary and outstanding career as a Guyanese leader.
The small opposition Unity for Change (UFC) party also supported the motion.
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| Linden Forbes Sampson Burnham. GINA Photo |
The motion calls for a collection of speeches spanning Burnham's tenure in the National Assembly from 1953 until his death in 1985, for display in the Library of the National Assembly and for the government to designate a state institution to be responsible for historic research and documentation to chronicle and archive all the works of each of the country's presidents for benefit of future generation..
The National Assembly also approved that full size portraits of each of the presidents be mounted in the Chambers of Parliament.
In moving the motion, Corbin said, "We in the PNC recognize Burnham as a visionary who was a founding father of an independent Guyana. His vision was to establish a egalitarian society where all races would enjoy social justice and political and economic emancipation"
Prime Minister Sam Hinds endorsed the motion, which was fully supported. Hinds said that Burnham's career was an extraordinary one, which was due mainly to the personal skills and abilities that nature had blessed him in extraordinary huge proportions.
Hinds quoted Ashton Chase, who was also a founder member of the PPP, who said, “Burnham was a failure, he was a success, he was a builder, he was a destroyer, he was a strategist, and he was a schemer."
The late executive president died at the age of 62 on August 6, 1985, while undergoing throat surgery at the Georgetown Hospital. | | | | Reads : 31 |
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