First Lady Deolatchmee Ramotar and the staff of Freedom House on Saturday joined in celebrating the 93rd birthday of Edmund Forde of Buxton, East Coast Demerara.
A press release from Freedom House said that Forde who has a street named in his honour in the village has been associated since the mid 1940s with the late Dr Cheddi Jagan and the Political Affairs Committee which preceded the establishment of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) in 1950. He has served as a grass roots activist for over 60 years and continues to serve by selling the party’s weekly publication ‘The Mirror’ within his community.
The small gathering has become an annual event over the years and the sprightly Forde is
