Guyana’s new president
Guyana’s new president-to-be Bharrat Jagdeo, is an economist, whose political career started with the PPP as a 16-year-old high school student. As Minister of Finance, Jagdeo, who as president will be the youngest head of state in the entire Western Hemisphere, was a principal negotiator for debt reductions and soft loans and grants. Yesterday, he said he would prefer to withhold comment until his inauguration on Wednesday, but felt “very humble and very honoured at the prospect of serving the nation for whatever period as president. “It has been my good fortune,” he said, “to have grown up, like a lot of my leading Cabinet and party colleagues at the feet of Cheddi and Janet Jagan and together we intend to build on the foundation laid.”
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