President David Granger yesterday described late former President Desmond Hoyte as an example of selfless service to the people of Guyana and a man imbued with an acute awareness of the need to change the course of direction of the country.
“Guyana remembers Desmond Hoyte, its second executive president, a patriot, with affection and respect,” Granger said, in his address at a ceremony held yesterday morning at the Botanical Gardens to commemorate Hoyte’s 13th death anniversary, according to a release from the Ministry of the Presidency.
Granger said that at the time of the General Elections of December 1964,
