Guyana’s 59st Independence Anniversary Celebration Committee (New York)

BIOGRAPHICAL DATA
MOSES VEERASAMMY NAGAMOOTOO
PRIME MINISTER OF GUYANA

CURRENT DESIGNATION

• Prime Minister & First Vice-President
• Member of Parliament
• Attorney-at-Law
• Justice of the Peace & Commissioner of Oaths to Affidavits

FAMILY
Born: November 30, 1947, Whim Village, Corentyne, Berbice, Guyana.
Parents: Gangama (Aunty Chunoo) and Nagamootoo Ramaswamy (Naga), both deceased.
Spouse: Sita Nagamootoo with 4 Children; 5 Grandchildren.

EDUCATION

• Auchlyne Scots School
• Rose Hall & Comprehensive High Schools
• Accabre College of Social Sciences
• Venezuelan Spanish Language Institute
• University of Guyana
• University of the West Indies (Hugh Wooding Law School)

POLITICS

• In 1961, at age 14, joined anti-colonialist struggle for Guyana’s independence.
• 1964, October – Joined Progressive Youth Organisation (PYO) and People’s Progressive Party (PPP).
• 1966 – A founder of National Union of Students.
• 1964 -1992: Unbroken struggle for restoration of press freedom, human rights and electoral democracy
  in Guyana.

PARTY/PUBLIC POSTS

• 1976 – 2011 – Member of PPP Central Committee.
• 1978 – 2005 – Member of PPP Executive Committee.
• 1994 – 1996 – Council Member, University of Guyana.
• 1994 – 1998 – Director, Guyana Airways Corporation.
• 2005 – 2006 – Executive Member, Guyana Bar Association.
• 2011 – Vice-Chairman, Alliance For Change (AFC)

CABINET/PARLIAMENTARY PORTFOLIO

• 1992 – 2001; 2006 – 11: Member of Parliament.
• 1992 – 2001: Senior Minister of Information; Senior Minister of Local Government & Regional
• Development with responsibility for Information & Amerindian Affairs.
• Member of Cabinet under four Presidents (Cheddi and Janet Jagan, Samuel Hinds and Bharrat Jagdeo).

PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEES

• 1996-2001/2006: Member of Select Committee on Constitutional Reform.
• 1999/2001: Chairman of Oversight Committee of the Select Committee on Constitutional Reform.
• 2006- Member, Foreign Relations and Standing Orders Committees.

TEACHER (1964-70); JOURNALIST (1971-92)

JOURNALIST ORGANISATIONS

• General Secretary of the Union of Guyanese Journalists – UGJ (1970-1992);
• Founder member and Executive member of Caribbean Association of Media Workers- CAMWORK (1986-1992);
• Executive Member of Federation of Latin American Journalists – FELAP;
• Vice-President of International Organisation of Journalists – IOJ (1990-1996).

BOOKS
Hendree’s Cure, Peepal Tree Press, UK (2001 Nominee Guyana Literature Prize for First Novel)
Fragments from Memory (2015)

POETRY
Editor Anthology of Revolutionary Poems: “For the Fighting Front”

BOOKLETS

• Three Trials of Arnold Rampersaud
• Towards a Peaceful Solution: a Commentary on the Guyana-Venezuela Border Issue
• Fraud: a Synopsis of Guyana’s Rigged 1980 Elections
• The State of the Free Press in Guyana (with Cheddi Jagan)
• Race, Class and Nationhood (with Cheddi Jagan)
• Party Paramountcy over the Guyana Media
• Portrait of a People’s President: Dr. Cheddi Jagan (1918-1997)
• The Political Situation and the Way Forward in Guyana: A Discourse on the Implications of the 1997 Elections

Office of the Prime Minister
Shiv Chanderpaul Drive, Bourda, Georgetown
Tel.: 592.227.8266, 592.227.3101-2
Fax: 592.226.7573
Email: opm@opm.gov.gy