Ramkarran calls for decriminalizing of same sex lifestyles

Ralph Ramkarran

PPP executive Ralph Ramkarran has called for the decriminalizing of same sex relationships saying that the present laws are archaic and that the society should be liberal in outlook and socially progressive.

Writing in last weekend’s edition of the Mirror Newspaper, Ramkarran went as far as voicing support for same-sex marriages though he acknowledged that the conservative society here would be unlikely to agree to this.

The Guyana Government committed at a Geneva human rights forum two years ago to