President David Granger yesterday attended the funeral service of Jules Kranenburg, a former Minister of Public Works and Communications with responsibility for transport under the Desmond Hoyte administration. The service was held at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception on Brickdam, Stabroek.
Kranenburg died on May 29 at the age of 83 years old.
A Ministry of the Presidency press release yesterday said that he was described by Minister of Foreign Affairs, Carl Greenidge as a generous and decent man, who was a representation of all that was distinctive of old Demerara and Georgetown.