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An ashes ceremony was held yesterday for the late Pandit Prakash Gossai at the De Hoop Mandir, Mahaica.

Part of the gathering. (GINA photo)

Part of the gathering. (GINA photo)

According to the Government Information Agency, the ceremony was attended by President Bharrat Jagdeo.

Pandit Gossai succumbed to a heart condition in June after he was taken to the US. He was cremated in New York and in accordance with his wishes his ashes were yesterday dispersed in the Mahaica River.

He was born in Handsome Tree, Mahaica

President Bharrat Jagdeo with the children of the late Pandit Prakash Gossai, Arun and Pratiksha Gossai. (GINA photo)

President Bharrat Jagdeo with the children of the late Pandit Prakash Gossai, Arun and Pratiksha Gossai. (GINA photo)

Creek, East Coast Demerara, on April 25, 1953.  He was a special assistant to the President at the time of his death and a popular Hindu priest.

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  1. BORAPORK CANADA says:

    Has anyone discovered what was the nature of the advice being given to the President?

    • yasuman71 UNITED STATES says:

      Borapork, use your head. The nature of the advice?
      1) Thou shall not steal.
      2) Thou shall not commit adultery.
      3) Honour thy father and thy mother.
      4) Thou shall not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
      5) If Freddie Kissoon slaps you on one cheek, turn and give him the other cheek.
      And the blessed President has heeded all the advice.

    • BORAPORK CANADA says:

      Yasuman71: You left out “Thou shall not kill”.

      Another piece of advice had to be “Do nothing to cause the removal of Corbin from the leadership of the P.N.C.”

  2. bishnuR CANADA says:

    BP. YOUR COMMENT ROCK LOL.



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