For a decade, from about the mid-1970’s to mid-1980’s, this nation saw such severe economic deprivation that a generation may have been lost under the weight of poverty and social degradation.
When the nation won free and fair elections in 1992, after seven years of Hoyte’s economic reforms that had solved the crushing public transportation problem and eased the food shortages, an air of optimism ushered in a “new dawn”.
People finally started to feel that the immediate future would deliver the great potential of our homeland. Dr Cheddi Jagan became a