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Doctor Cheddie Jagan

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  • The Cheddi Jagan Research Centre which is privately run by Dr. Jagan's family and friends, was declared open on March 22, 2002 . Our aims and objectives are to promote research into and publish materials on the life, work and ideas of Dr. Jagan - this will also promote research into the history of Guyana's struggle for Independence and social justice, the history of Guyana as a whole from the early 1940's to the late 1990's.

 

  • "The spread of poverty, unchecked across geographical frontiers but particularly so in the poorest countries of the world, the continuous swelling of the ranks of the unemployed and those that are underemployed, even in situations of reasonably sustained economic growth, and the impact of these and other pressures on our societies, as a result of on-going political, economic, ideological, ecological, social and cultural crisis, has led to increasing social tensions, the undermining of traditional values and to the loss of direction.

 

Solutions to these problems cannot be postponed. Continued inaction on the part of political leaders will result only in further disintegration and the eventual collapse of our social systems. We owe it to our peoples as well as to future generations, whose interests we must consider, to devise remedies that would lead to better lives, better societies and a better world. Indeed, this is a time for action–a time for urgent action!" Excerpt from:

 

  • Dear Mrs Janet Jagan & Family, On behalf of the Doobay's Family of Mississauga Ontario Canada. We would like to extend our deepest sympathy in the loss of your loving husband "Dr. Cheddie Bharat Jagan", a great patriot, a great politican, a great hero, a man of wisdom, and a legendary leader combined. We pray that the good lord may bless his "Soul or Atma", and give him a resting place as he reaches out to the great heavens. We also pray that if he were to take re-birth, we ask the lord let it be in the same family circle but on a higher platform to rule Nation over an over as in his previous birth. God divine blessings to his soul. Thank You very kindly, Yours Sincerly, Robin Doobay & Family.

 

  • Dr Jagan, you've been referred to in the U.S. press as an unabashed Stalinist and a Moscow-inspired purist, and on the other hand you've been referred to as a former Marxist who has seen the light and is now a converted practitioner of free-market economics. How would you describe your political and economic evolution over the past 30 years?

 

  • Our beloved President Cheddi Jagan died in the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington DC, at 12:23 am (Eastern time) on Thursday, March 6 after suffering a serious heart attack three weeks earlier.

A great man and a legendary leader was lost to the reaches of the heavens. It was indeed a very sad day for all of Guyana and for Guyanese around the world.

 

  • "There are few inter-racial couples anywhere in the world celebrating 50 years of marriage. That in itself is notable. That the Jagans were and are an amazing couple, living symbols of undying love, a love made deeper by their undying commitment to social justice makes them a model in an age riven with strife, of which they themselves have seen more than enough, and have themselves been victims. Especially so, where divorce is the rule rather than the exception, an inter-racial marriage surviving what the Jagans have survived, with love undiminished, and the partnership stronger than when it began is cause for universal rejoicing." From Article by Tim Hector see link below:

 

  • The Progressive People’s Party (PPP) wins 18 of the 24 elected seats in the general elections in Guyana, a British colony in the Caribbean. Dr. Cheddi Jagan, an admirer of the works of Karl Marx, heads the new government. [New York Times, 10/30/1994; BBC, 12/9/2005]from website see link below:

 

  • In March 1997, following the passing of President Dr. Cheddi Jagan, then-President Samuel Hinds decided to rename the airport the Cheddi Jagan International Airport. The proposition to rename the airport was tabled in the Parliament (National Assembly) by the Honourable Minister of Amerindian Affairs, Vibert De Souza, who noted that it would be a fitting tribute to a man who had spent his life committed to the betterment of Amerindian people and fighting for the freedom and unity of all Guyanese. A plaque bearing the new name was unveiled on May 21st 1997 by the Honourable Prime Minister, Janet Jagan.

 

  • The late Cheddi Bharrat Jagan is undoubtedly a national hero who through the crucible of time had enjoyed, while yet alive, a popular appeal that set him apart from and above the ordinary. Emerging from the bound-yard of a Corentyne sugar plantation and being the son of East Indian indentured labourers, the anti-colonial rebel waged a highly successful fifty-four year crusade against the worse excesses of British colonialism, western imperialism and its local manifestations, be it plantation colonial oligarchy or neo-colonial authoritarian rule.From article below published in Stabroek News see link below:

 

  • The millions who now live in abject poverty and despair are impatient for change and are watching us in Copenhagen. We must not fail them. In all countries, modernisation and globalisation have led to widening gaps between the haves, the "included" and the have-nots, the "excluded". The globalisation of poverty is a reflection of underdevelopment, scientific change, injustice and intolerance.

 

 

  • "I am glad to be back from what I regard as one of my most fruitful trips abroad. I would like to take this opportunity to let you know about some of the discussions which I have had and the results of these talks.

First, you would no doubt like to hear about electricity. Well, at last we have got this problem licked. Agreement was reached in London, as you have already heard, for the takeover of the Demerara Electric Company’s undertaking.

In addition, we have also settled the question of purchasing additional plant to take care of our expanded needs for the next five to six years. We have bought diesel equipment as an emergency measure. Every effort will be made, we have been assured, to get these into the country by Christmas. The large steam plants are expected about two years from now. But, we were told by the manufacturers that they would try to get them a bit earlier, sometime between eighteen months to two years."

 

  • "We have watched with great interest, sympathy, and understanding the growing national liberation movements in all colonial and semi-colonial countries throughout the world. Whenever and wherever the opportunity arose, we have added our small voice in the cause of freedom for all oppressed peoples.

To use the words of His Excellency, W. S. Tubman, President of Liberia, “We insist upon the inherent and natural rights of all men to be free. We insist that the process should be speeded up and that the time will come, and not too far distant, when all nations shall gear themselves to the proposition that each is the other’s brother without regard to geographical locality, racial affinity or religious concepts.”

In our country, the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) from its inception in 1950 has been in the forefront of the struggle for political freedom and democratic rights. Every method has been used to destroy this Party: from the show of brute force to open terror; from the destruction of the popularly elected constitutional government in 1953 to the detention and imprisonment of its leaders; from victimisation and intimidation of its militants to national bribery at the masses."

 

  • Having more in common than their deaths on the same day in 1997, the late Cheddi Jagan of Guyana and Michael Manley of Jamaica both represented a radical perspective in modern Caribbean politics. Jagan and Manley each had a bold and creative ability to connect labor and politics and made it their priority to minimize poverty and inequality and to enhance the welfare of the Caribbean’s disadvantaged and dispossessed. Caribbean Labor and Politics looks closely at the legacies of Jagan and Manley and their ramifications for the political and economic struggles of the Caribbean region and the world.

 

 

  • JAGAN, CHEDDI , 1918-97, prime minister of British Guiana (1961-64) and president (1992-97) of independent Guyana. Of Asian Indian descent, he was trained at Northwestern Univ., Chicago, Ill. as a dentist.

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