President David Granger has justified the Ministry of the Presidency’s intervention in the post office’s planned issuance of stamps to commemorate the centennial birth anniversary of late president Dr. Cheddi Jagan, saying that it acted to ensure that he is honoured properly.
“If there was any fault at all, it was the desire of the persons that did the writing not to treat Dr. Jagan in a way that he deserves to be treated. It is a national honour. It is not a physical thing, not a piece of paper. Dr Jagan is an outstanding Guyanese and we will honour Dr Jagan,” Granger told reporters on Wednes-day at State House, where he received letters of credence from Russia’s new Ambassador to Guyana.
He said that his government supports the honouring of all of its former presidents and was concerned that the request for the stamps was not put in the context of honouring president Jagan but was treated as a postal matter.
