Dear Land of Guyana by Moses V. Nagamootoo

A review by Christopher Ram

Introduction

Coming out from seclusion roughly 3 1/2 years after the end of his prime ministership of the APNU+AFC Coalition Govern-ment 2015 – 2020, long-serving politician and attorney-at-law Moses Nagamootoo has published his autobiographical account of that period. He is the second leading member of the Alliance For Change in that Government to offer Guyanese their account of their respective roles during that period.

The first was by Natural Resources Minister Raphael Trotman whose book From Destiny to Prosperity was serialised in parts 110 – 113 of my oil and gas column in the Stabroek News in October/ November last year. My initial intention was to apply a different approach to Nagamootoo’s book offering only a book review rather than a serialisation but having created the precedent with Trotman‘s book, beginning today and continuing over the next couple weeks, I will offer a summary of Moses’ book but leaving it to the reader to fill in the details. The book is available for purchase from Austin‘s Bookstore in Georgetown at the price of $4,000 per copy.