First Lady Deolatchmee Ramotar: Not comfortable in the spotlight

Deolatchmee Ramotar

Being the wife of the seventh executive President of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana is something which has not yet quite sunk in for Deolatchmee Ramotar, and if she has her way she would be called Mrs Ramotar instead of First Lady Ramotar.

But the fact that her husband is now the most powerful man in the country is not lost on her, and she is confident that he is the man for the job of bringing the peoples of a sometimes divided nation together. In fact, if Guyana is not unified under the new President’s tenure then it would never happen, his wife predicted.

It was with hugs, nervous laughter and a somewhat uneasy look that she greeted the Sunday Stabroek team at her Goodverwagting, East Coast Demerara home recently. She knew she was the