President Donald Ramotar and Education minister Priya Manickchand joined relatives and friends of Cecelia Rebecca Tappin to celebrate her 100 birthday on Sunday.
“The President said that ‘Sister Tappin’ as she is fondly called, is an invaluable prize as she stands as a witness to 100 years of Guyana history,” according to a Government Information Agency (GINA) press release. He urged members of her Lichfield, West Coast Berbice community to take the time to record some of the events that she still recalls.
“We are a combination of our past and our present and the more we know about our past, the better we will be able to