Rashleigh Jackson passes away at 93

Rashleigh Jackson

Two weeks after being hospitalised for a fall, former Minister of Foreign Affairs Rashleigh Jackson passed away last evening at his Nandy Park, East Bank Demerara home. 

He served as Guyana’s Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1978 up to his retirement in 1991 but before that had other diplomatic postings including at the United Nations as Guyana’s Permanent Represen-tative.

He was 93 years old.