Sita Nagamootoo sees role working with grassroots women, children

Sita Nagamootoo

She is seen as the quiet and before now, not very visible partner of Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo but after one conversation with Sita Nagamootoo, one quickly realises that she is a woman of strength and resilience and one who has been the rock her husband sought refuge in whenever the political punches came fast and furious.

Married to the recently sworn in Prime Minister for some 43 years, Mrs Nagamootoo has never wavered in her support of him in his quest to make Guyana a better country and one in which all Guyanese can have a good life. And so, even though he put his life at risk, was thrown in jail and many times left the raising of their four young children to her, Sita Nagmootoo stood by her man.

And it is a man she is obviously still very much in love with as her eyes lit up when he stepped into the room almost an hour after she began the conversation with the Sunday Stabroek at their Sophia home. She is not shy to talk about their journey together, which started since they were in school, but indicated that it would take an entire novel tell that love story. It must be told though that the first conversation the two had was while she was