When Elisabeth Harper was announced as the PPP/C’s Prime Ministerial candidate recently the question many Guyanese asked was: “Who is she?”
While Harper would have served for almost 40 years at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs—15 of those years as Director General—she was and still is relatively unknown outside of the political and professional circles.
This was not helped by the fact that at her surprise announcement, PPP General Secretary Clement Rohee and President Donald Ramotar spoke for and around her,