Jagdeo urges youth to remember history, defend progress

A section of the audience in the main auditorium.

President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday said young people need to look back at the country’s history, in order to defend its current progress.

“If you do not have a sense of how far we have come, then there will be nothing to defend because you will not see the progress made,” he said at the Impress Youth Expo, organised by the Youths for PPP/C group at the International Convention Centre, at Liliendaal, East Coast Demerara.

Addressing thousands in attendance, Jagdeo’s focused the opening of his speech on the history of the rule of the British colonists and later the