Deborah Jan Osman-Backer, Attorney-at-Law, former Deputy Speaker and Member of the National Assembly, died on Friday March 21, 2014, at the age of 54.
She graduated from the University of the West Indies’ Hugh Wooding Law School in 1983 and practiced law for more than thirty years, doing a great deal of ‘pro-bono’ work particularly in the service of vulnerable women and children.
A founder member of the Guyana Association of Women Lawyers in April 1987, she envisaged its mission as that of
