Last Updated on Sunday, 29 December 2024, 21:08 by Writer
He was 100 years old.
“Guyanese will remember President Carter’s ushering in of a liberal democracy in 1992, the work of his Carter Center in crafting the National Development Strategy (NDS), a still and acutely necessary blue print to follow, and his ever present team of Observers, during and after, General and Regional elections. These are but a few of his worthwhile contributions to Guyana’s democratic growth and development,” that party said in a statement.
Back in 1990, when Guyana should have gone to an election, Mr Carter had flown into Guyana and persuaded then Guyana President Desmond Hoyte to introduce wide-ranging electoral reforms. Mr Hoyte’s People’s National Congress (PNC) lost the 1992 elections, internationally certified as the first free and fair polls from 1964 to 1992, to the People’s Progressive Party (PPP).
At the invitation of the Cheddi Jagan-led PPP administration, the Carter Center had laid the foundation for the NDS development. Despite misgivings that inclusive governance between the Bharrat Jagdeo-led PPP administration and Mr Hoyte’s PNC-Reform had not made significant advances, the Carter Center had deployed observers to almost all of Guyana’s elections since 1992.
The AFC cited several qualities of the US’ 39th President and said his life and good works touched every sphere of life. “The name Jimmy Carter is synonymous with decency, good governance, transparency and accountability – virtues that he sought to inculcate in his own nation, even while urging others elsewhere to adopt them,” the party said.
The AFC also remembered Mr Carter for his gentleness, and resolute quest to make the world a more peaceful and tolerable place than he had found it when he became President. “The world is a better place because of President Carter’s contribution to it, and we are all eternally grateful.”
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