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Moses Nagamootoo
BIO DATA: MOSES V. NAGAMOOTOO
Current Designation:
Vice-Chairman, AFC
Attorney-at-Law
Justice of the Peace
Commissioner of Oaths to Affidavits
Career:
Teacher : Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 1964-1970
Journalist: Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 1970-1992
Government Minister:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 1992-2000
Member of Parliament:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â 1992-2015
Positions Held:
(a) Government:
Member of Cabinet (under four Presidents of Guyana)
Senior Minister of Information: 1992-2001
Senior Minister of Local Government & Regional Development with responsibilities for Information & Amerindian Affairs: 1995-1996
(b) Parliament:
Member of Parliamentary Select Committee on Constitutional Reform: 1996-2001
Chairman, Oversight Committee on Constitutional Reform: 1999-2001
(c) Journalism:
General Secretary, Union of Guyanese Journalists (1970-1992)
Executive, Caribbean Association of Media Workers (1986-1992)
Executive, Federation of Latin American Journalists
Vice-President, International Organisation of Journalists
(d) Politics:
Member, Central/Executive Committee of People’s Progressive Party (PPP): 1976-2005
Joined Progressive Youth Organisation (PYO) 23/09/1964 & PPP on 3/10/64.
Publications:
Novel:                   Hendree’s Cure, Peepal Tree Press, UK
(2001 Nominee Guyana Literature  Prize)
Poetry: Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Anthology of Revolutionary Poems
Manuscripts:
- Caribbean Perspective of Suriname’s 1980 Coup
- Origins of Mass-Based Parties in the Caribbean
- Grenada: Revolutionary Legality
- NAFTA – Implications for the Caribbean
Booklets:
- Three Trials of Arnold Rampersaud
- Towards a Peaceful Solution – the Guyana-Venezuela Border Issue
- Fraud: Synopsis of Guyana’s 1980 Rigged 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: Cheddi Jagan (1918-1997)
- The Political Situation and the Way Forward in Guyana (1997)
Personal:
Born: November 30, 1947
Married to Sita Nagamootoo, B.Ed., Dip.Ed. (Educationist) on 23rd May, 1971.
Four children; five grandsons
Education:
- Accabre College of Social Sciences
- Venezuelan Spanish Language Institute
- University of Guyana
- Hugh Wooding Law School, University of the West Indies.
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