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Martin Zephyr
Winslow Martin Zephyr (1 March 1931 – 10 June 2009) was a Guyanese politician and lawyer. He served as Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly from 1998 to 2000. After the death of Derek Jagan Derek Chunilall Jagan (25 May 1930 – 15 October 2000) was a Guyanese politician and lawyer. He served as Speaker of the National Assembly of Guyana from 1992 to 2000.http://parliament.gov.gy/GUYANA%20PARLIAMENT%20HISTORY%202009-1.pdf He died o ..., Zephyr was elected Speaker of the National Assembly of Guyana and served until 2001 parliament.gov.gy He died in the United States on 10 June 2009. References 20 ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States
The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territories, nine Minor Outlying Islands, and 326 Indian reservations. The United States is also in free association with three Pacific Island sovereign states: the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau. It is the world's third-largest country by both land and total area. It shares land borders with Canada to its north and with Mexico to its south and has maritime borders with the Bahamas, Cuba, Russia, and other nations. With a population of over 333 million, it is the most populous country in the Americas and the third most populous in the world. The national capital of the United States is Washington, D.C. and its most populous city and principal financial center is New York City. Paleo-Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Speakers Of The National Assembly Of Guyana
The Speaker is the presiding officer of the National Assembly (Guyana), National Assembly in Guyana. The post was created in 1966 when the National Assembly came into being, although previous legislatures including the Legislative Council (British Guiana), Legislative Council, House of Assembly (British Guiana), House of Assembly, and the Legislative Assembly (British Guiana), Legislative Assembly also had Speakers. The position of Speaker was introduced in 1953 following constitutional reforms that created the House of Assembly. The Speaker was initially appointed by the Governor, but following the 1961 constitutional reforms, was elected by members of the legislature. The first elected Speaker, Rahman Baccus Gajraj, was not a member of the Legislative Assembly. The second, Aubrey Percival Alleyne, was a member of the House of Assembly, and after election as Speaker, resigned from his role as an elected member and was replaced by the next person on the party's list. The Speaker ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Derek Chunilall Jagan
Derek Chunilall Jagan (25 May 1930 – 15 October 2000) was a Guyanese politician and lawyer. He served as Speaker of the National Assembly of Guyana from 1992 to 2000.http://parliament.gov.gy/GUYANA%20PARLIAMENT%20HISTORY%202009-1.pdf He died of an apparent heart attack while doing yard work in 2000. He was the younger brother of former Guyanese president Cheddi Jagan. In the early 1960s, Jagan was monitored by the British government during the Cold War The Cold War is a term commonly used to refer to a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc. The term '' cold war'' is used because the .... Jagan was elected (PPP/C) was elected speaker 17 December 1992. Upon his death, he was replaced by Winslow Martin Zephyr. References 1930 births 2000 deaths 20th-century Guyanese lawyers Indo-Guyanese people People from East Berbice-Corentyne People's Progressive Par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hari Narayen Ramkaran
Hari Narayen Ramkaran (born 11 August 1946), known as Ralph Ramkarran, is a Guyanese politician and lawyer. He served as Speaker of the National Assembly of Guyana from 2001 to 2011. Biography He attended Bel Air Primary school, Central High School and Queen's College. After his high school education, he then went on to the UK to study law. Ramkarran qualified as a lawyer in 1972 in the United Kingdom as a member of Gray's Inn The Honourable Society of Gray's Inn, commonly known as Gray's Inn, is one of the four Inns of Court (professional associations for barristers and judges) in London. To be called to the bar in order to practise as a barrister in England and Wale ... and returned to Guyana the following year when he entered into private practice. In 1977, he joined the law firm of Cameron & Shepherd, which is now Guyana's oldest and largest law firm. He is currently the firm's Senior Partner. He became a Senior Counsel of Guyana's judiciary in 1996. Ramkarran has s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Derek Jagan
Derek Chunilall Jagan (25 May 1930 – 15 October 2000) was a Guyanese politician and lawyer. He served as Speaker of the National Assembly of Guyana from 1992 to 2000.http://parliament.gov.gy/GUYANA%20PARLIAMENT%20HISTORY%202009-1.pdf He died of an apparent heart attack while doing yard work in 2000. He was the younger brother of former Guyanese president Cheddi Jagan. In the early 1960s, Jagan was monitored by the British government during the Cold War The Cold War is a term commonly used to refer to a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc. The term '' cold war'' is used because the .... Jagan was elected (PPP/C) was elected speaker 17 December 1992. Upon his death, he was replaced by Winslow Martin Zephyr. References 1930 births 2000 deaths 20th-century Guyanese lawyers Indo-Guyanese people People from East Berbice-Corentyne People's Progressive Part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Speakers Of The National Assembly (Guyana)
Speaker may refer to: Society and politics * Speaker (politics), the presiding officer in a legislative assembly * Public speaker, one who gives a speech or lecture * A person producing speech: the producer of a given utterance, especially: ** In poetry, the literary character uttering the lyrics of a poem or song, as opposed to the author writing the words of that character; see Character (arts) Electronics * Loudspeaker, a device that produces sound ** Computer speakers, speakers sold for use with computers ** Speaker driver, the essential electromechanical element of the loudspeaker Arts, entertainment and media * Los Speakers (or "The Speakers"), a Colombian rock band from the 1960s * ''The Speaker'' (periodical), a weekly review published in London from 1890 to 1907 * ''The Speaker'' (TV series), a 2009 BBC television series * "Speaker" (song), by David Banner * "Speakers" (Sam Hunt song), 2014 * ''The Speaker'', the second book in Traci Chee's Sea of Ink and Gold trilog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People's Progressive Party (Guyana) Politicians
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There are several parties named People's Progressive Party: *People's Progressive Party (Anguilla) *People's Progressive Party (Gambia) *People's Progressive Party (Guyana) (and previously British Guiana) *People's Progressive Party (Malaysia) *People's Progressive Party (Nepal) *People's Progress Party (Papua New Guinea) *People's Progressive Party (Saint Lucia) *People's Progressive Party (Solomon Islands) *People's Progressive Party (Uganda) *People's Progress Party (Vanuatu) *United People's Progressive Party, Bulgaria *Croatian People's Progressive Party from the Croatian parliamentary election, 1906 See also *Progressive People's Party (other) Progressive People's Party may refer to: *Progressive People's Party (Germany), in the late German Empire *Progressive People's Party (Ghana) * Progressive People's Party (Liberia) *Progressive People's Party (Namibia) The Progressive People's Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1931 Births
Events January * January 2 – South Dakota native Ernest Lawrence invents the cyclotron, used to accelerate particles to study nuclear physics. * January 4 – German pilot Elly Beinhorn begins her flight to Africa. * January 22 – Sir Isaac Isaacs is sworn in as the first Australian-born Governor-General of Australia. * January 25 – Mohandas Gandhi is again released from imprisonment in India. * January 27 – Pierre Laval forms a government in France. February * February 4 – Soviet leader Joseph Stalin gives a speech calling for rapid industrialization, arguing that only strong industrialized countries will win wars, while "weak" nations are "beaten". Stalin states: "We are fifty or a hundred years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this distance in ten years. Either we do it, or they will crush us." The first five-year plan in the Soviet Union is intensified, for the industrialization and collectivization of agriculture. * February 10 †... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
