Boundless Accomplisher, Journalist, Statesman and Prime Minister of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana Mr. Moses V Nagamootoo. Part Final

Mr. Moses V Nagamootoo and the beginning of his political career ; The British Guiana got independence only on May 26, 1966; until then it was under the control of the British Government; for about 150 years .As indentured labor scheme was stopped by the British Government, majority  of  the Indo-Guyanese Indentured Laborers and their descendants, stayed back and settled in the British Guyana. In line with the contemporary development of international political scenario , in Guiana also the freedom movement took a new shape and speed.  Moses V Nagamootoo also played his own active part in the freedom Movement of Guyana.

Mr Moses Nagamootoo and People's Progressive Party , Guyana : The People's Progressive Party which played a major role in the freedom Movement of British Guiana was founded on the 1st January, 1950, by merging the Political Affairs Committee led by  Mr. Cheddi Jagan  [a descendant of an Indian indentured Laborer ] and the British Guiana Labor Party led by Mr. Forbes Burnham  .Young..Moses Nagamootoo entered Politics at the teen age  of 14  in 1961.  Moses Nagamootoo became a regular Member of the People's Progressive Party [PPP ] in 1964 and took a leading part in the Anti-Colonial freedom struggle for the cause of Guyana's independence; and he continued as a leading Member of the P.P.P till 2011. During the period from 1964 to 1976  he   served as an active   Member of the youth wing of the Progressive Youth Organization, in various capacities. He was one of the founders of the National Union of Students in 1966 and served as its first Organizing Secretary in an outstanding way.  Within a short span of time Moses Nagamootoo became one of the front line leaders in People's Progressive Party,[PPP] and served as its Central Committee Member of PPP for nearly 35 years [1976-2011]and  also functioned as its Executive Member of the People's Progressive Party, for nearly  27 years [1978- 2005].

Mr Nagamotoo as a Parliamentarian : Mr Moses V. Nagamooto is a powerful and convincing orator , writer,jurnalist and political  thinker and popular leader  .  He contested  the Parliamentary  Elections held in 1992, 1997, 2001 , 2006, 2011, as official candidate of the Peoples Progressive Party,Guyana and he won all the elections with good majority. In short we can say that he served as a great  Parliamentarian from 1991 to 2011 and also served as  Senior Minister of Information,  Minister of Local Government and Regional Development and Minister in Charge of Armerindians, etc,  in the Government of Guyana; under four Presidents namely : Mr.Cheddi Jagan, , Mr Samuel Hinds  Mrs Janet Jagan and Mr. Bharrat Jagdeo.

Mr.Moses V.Nagamootoo resigned from the People's Progressive.Party and joined A.F.C: As a Politician  he has his own political goals, ambitions and plans. In  October ,2011 surprisingly Moses Nagamootoo resigned form P.P.P   after having a long 50 years association with it  .With great risk but with great vision and confidence he moved his political pawns in the political  game and joined the Alliance For Change[AFC} in October 2011.  But Mr. Moses Nagamootoo was re-elected as a Member of Parliament in November, 2011 on the AFC's slate. Mr. Moses V. Nagamootoo became the Vice President of the A.F..C in November ,2011. As we know the goal of a Politician is to capture power to rule his nation and having got the power to rule , as a ruler the Politician  should sincerely work  for the progress of his country and country men. Even though many politicians criticized Moses Nagamooto on his resignation from PPP, he was not disturbed and he moved forward to achieve his political goals in a calculated and competent style. 

Electoral Alliance  signed  between A.F.C and A.P.N.U: Vice President of the A.F.C   Mr. Moses Nagamootoo and the Chairman of the A.P.N.U. Mr David Graner, signed a historical political agreement called Cunningburg Accord [ Valentine Day Accord ] on 14th  February,2015,  before the 2015 Parliament  Election ,  on behalf of their respective parties with unyielding dedication to change the political scenario of Guyana with an alternative Coalition Government.

Mr. Moses Veerasamy Nagamootoo was sworn as the Prime Minister of the Republic of Guyana:: Due to some political developments in Guyana, the then President of the Republic of Guyana,  Mr Donald Ramdar , dismissed the National Assembly of Guyana and called for an  early Parliamentary Election  along with the Regional Elections, and accordingly the Parliamentary Election was held in Guyana in November , 2015. The APNU and AFC Alliance fielded its candidates against the People's Progressive Party candidates. and fought with great vigor and tenacity and won the Election by a single seat majority. The APNU and AFC Alliance bagged 33 Parliamentary seats as against 32 seat secured by People's Progressive Party. On the basis of the Election result the leader of the A.P.N.U, Mr David a. Granger was sworn in as President of the the Republlic of Guyana and Mr Moses V. Nagamootoo of the A.F.C was administered the oath of office as the Prime Minister and First Vice President  of the Republic of Guyana on 16th, May, 2015.. Since then Mr Moses Veerasamy  Nagamootoo has been functioning as Prime Minister of Guyana in an outstanding manner with great dedication and commitment. He loves the people of Guyana and Guyana very much. and so he  thinks for the people  and works for their progress, peaceful life , and prosperity

Conclusion: Long ago, during 19th century, some hundreds of Tamil  indentured laborers were taken in a Coolie Ship from Madras Port to Guyana  to work in the Sugar Plantations of Guyana as contract laborers and the Coolie Ship arrived  Guyana with the Tamil Coolie laborers in 1847 and those Laborers began to work in the Sugar Plantations like Bath Estate and  in such other Sugar  Estates in Guyana. Poverty you are the most cruelest of all cruel things. . Mr Moses V. Nagamootoo is a descendant of one of those Tamil Indentured laborers. My fingers are really privileged to trace the root  of his origin and  the route of his successful  life and write about his accomplishment and successes story in this Article. Really Mr . Moses V. Nagamootoo is an extraordinary, unique and a multi-faceted  person , and  by becoming the Prime Minister of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana he has given a sense of pride and happiness to all the Tamil Speaking people.  In this context I remember one of the famous Thirukural  written by Thivalluvar , that says that a mother gets great  joy when she  gives birth to a son but she gets greater joy when  she hears the news that her son's  integrity  and  enviable achievements. We are proud of  Mr Moses V.Nagamootoo's extraordinary accomplishments and his life has  really become an inspiration  to thousands of less privileged poor  people, throughout the world..
By. P. BABU MANOHARAN, M.A, [Rights reserved. This Article will be enlarged, modified and corrected if needed, later].

Boundless Accomplisher , Journalist, Statesman and Honorable Prime Minister of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana Mr. Moses V. Nagamootoo. Part B

Ms.Sita Mary Moses V.Nagamootoo, T.C.C,B,Ed, Dip.ED  and her Education and Teaching Career: Mr. Moses V. Nagamootoo married his beloved pretty pet chick of  his Alma Mater Aucklyne Scots School,  Ms. Sita Mary , [daughter of Mr. Basil Kamal and Ms. Ramdai Kamal ] on 23rd may, 1971. Mrs Sita Mary did all her higher studies only after her marriage  [1971]. Ms Sita Mary successfully did her Teacher Training Certificate Course at the Lilian Dewar College of Education,[ University of Guyana, Georgetown] majoring in Mathematics and minoring in Languages. and she graduated in 1977.

Ms Sita Mary like her husband attended the Auchlyne Church of Scotland School .She graduated from Lilian Dewar College of education for Secondary School Teachers, with a major in Mathematics and minor in language. She also passed her B.Ed degree in Education, the University of Guyana in 1985..  She started her teaching career as a School Teacher  at the age of 16, and  as a Teacher, School Principal [Alleyne High School] and College Lecturer [Cyril Potter College of Education -CPCE]  she had worked nearly forty years in the field of education.,. Really she is a remarkable and dedicated  teacher.

Mrs Sita Mary Moses Nagamootoo is a great Social Worker and has natural passion for the differently able children .Now she works as Secretary to the Ralph Joseph Charitable Foundation that works for the less fortunate children, widows , single parents in need and help.  Above all she stands as a supporting Pillar of all weathers to her politician husband Mr Moses V Nagamootoo  She is not only a life partner of Moses Nagamootoo but also his intellectual and political partner. Ms Sita Mary Nagamootoo is a powerful voice for the cause of women's rights. She is a proud  Recipient of the 2016 Woman of the Mission International Award and Citation . She is a proud mother of four children and a loving grandmother of five grandchildren She hails from a pious Roman Catholic Christian family and she took act part in the Church activities and even served as an active Sunday School Teacher.  

Mr.Moses V. Nagamootoo's Children :. Mr Moses V. Nagamootoo and his wife Ms Sita Mary Nagamootoo are blessed with three  pretty daughters and one smart  son namely:[1] Ms Angela Vashmini [she married Mr Tony Joseph and she has migrated to Canada with her family ] and   [2] Ms. Maria,[she married Dr. Dustaff Persaudand  and she is a teacher for children's special needs] [3] Ms. Adela [she married Mr Anthony Persaud and Adela is a  Law Graduate  and now she resides in Canada. ], [4] Mr. Ernesto.[ Who has just returned from US is working in his fathers LawChamber in George Town].

Mr. Moses V Nagamootoo's outstanding Journalistic  Career :  Mr Moses V. Nagamootoo is a born creative writer and he used Newspapers to  record and disseminate his spontaneous and  multifaceted thought flows to the people.. He is a born writer and journalist, and Patriot and so he naturally longed to liberate  Guyana from foreign rule, and dreamed to live in independent Guyana. .So he joined  the Peoples Progressive Party of Guyana to fight for the freedom of Guiana from British political suzerainty and chose Journalism  as  the  Battle Field to fight for the freedom of the British Guiana.  He started his brilliant journalistic career with Mirror Magazine.  At the time Mrs Janet Jagan [later she became the first Women President of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana] was working as the  Editor of the famous Mirror News Paper. Mr Moses Nagamootoo joined MirrorNews paper in 1970 as a Journalist and continued  to work with the Mirror, till he was appointed as Minister of Information, Guyana in 1992. Mr Moses used to write the headlines for Mirror News Paper and he was working as Mrs Janet Jagan's Editorial Assistant.  Moses Nagamootoo  served as a fearless Journalist. and wrote fearless and sharp Articles on local and international politics;and  many  a time his News paper  Articles , picked great controversy and national debate. Mr. Moses V Nagamootoo was one of the pioneer Members of the Union of Guyanese Journalists [UGJ].

Mr.Moses Nagamootoo's Articles and stories eared him thousands of admirers  throughout the world. Because of his thought provoking Stories and Articles in News Papers,[Mirror , Thunder , etc,] he was readily recognized as a leading Activist  and Champion for the the cause of Press Freedom, Human Rights and  freedom of Guyana . In recognition of his enviable and exceptional journalistic acumen and literary talent, Moses Nagamootoo was  sponsored  by the United States' Information Service  to work as a Visiting Journalist  at the prestigious Allen White School of Journalism, University of Kansas, in the United states of America..While Moses Nagamootoo was there in U.S, as a Visiting Journalist he got innumerable opportunities to work with so many outstanding Press personalities and also to write in  famous international  News Papers and magazines on many burning international  topics of the day [eg. Watergate Scandal ]  He loved journalism and loved to write and he was a successful Journalist and so  was honored with amny Awards, to cite a few;[1] the International Organization of Journalism Scroll of Honor for journalism from Vietnam, [2] the Press Association of Jamaica'  Press Week Award.[3]  Harvard University Guest Author ,[4 Allen White University Fellow [U.S.A}. Because of excellent writing skill and sharp grasp of national and international politics, Moses Nagamootoo was privileged to serve as the Chief speech Writer for 11 years for four Presidents of the Cooperative republic of Guyana. He had the honor of working as Vice-President of International Organization of Journalists.

He  has authored many books and booklets also: Mr Moses Nagamootoo is not only a great Journalist but also he is a talented creative Author.He has authored the following books :[1] Hendree Cure, published by Peepal Tree Press, U.K, 2001, This Book was nominated for Guyana's Literature Prize for first novel, [2] Fragments From Memory . [He narrates   the sweet and strong memmories of his life in very beautiful style in English ][2015 ]., [3] He has edited, Anthology of Revolutionary Poems, "For the Fighting Front". He has written many booklets on many burning issues of the day

Part Final [ His Political career  } will follow soon 
By . P. Babu Manoharan, M.A,[ Rights reserved. This Article will be enlarged, modified and corrected later, if needed ]. 

Boundless Accomplisher, an Indo-Guyanese of Tamil Ethnicity, Journalist , Statesman Hon. Prime Minister of Cooperative Republic Of Guyana, Mr Moses V. Nagamootoo. Part. A

Introduction: Today all the Indians and specially all the Tamil people living throughout the world are proud of the present Honorable Prime Minster of the Cooperative  Republic of Guyana Mr. Moses Veerasamy Nagamootoo .  Honorable Mr..Moses Veerasamy Nagamootoo, son of Mr. Ramasamy Nagamootoo [Indo-Guyanese of Tamil ethnicity]  has become the Honorable Prime Minster of Guyana on 20th May, 2015, by his hard work, creative thinking ,vision, statesmanship and extraordinary political intelligence . Probably Mr.Moses V Nagamootoo is the first Tamil  to occupy and decorate the office of   Prime Minister of a Nation, in the whole world .

Historical background  of the Indian Indentured laborers  who settled in Guyana:. Following the abolition of slavery  in 1834 and termination of apprenticeship system in 1838, there arose a compelling demand for low paid laborers in British and other European colonies  like Trinidad, Jamaica , Guyana, Figi, Ceylon,South Africa,  Kenya, Uganda, Mauritius, Malaysia , etc, to work in the rubber and sugar plantations and in tea and  coffee estates.and mines of those colony countries, as contract laborers for a period of five years for very low wage. During the period between 1838 and 1917 , India was one of the main suppliers of indentured laborers to these colonies and India  for the first time sent 396 indentured laborers to  British Guiana from Calcutta Port on the initiative taken by Mr. John Gladstone [F/o of British Statesman Mr William Gladstone. ]  with the permission of the East India Company. The Steamships Whitby and Heperus started  their sea voyage in 1838 carrying  the first batch of  Indian Indentured laborers. and reached Guyana after nearly three months . From Calcutta and Madras Ports Indian indentured  laborers along with  some women laborers  were sent  to Guyana in Coolie Ships during the first few decades starting from 1838.  In order to escape from poverty  and social suppression and caste based  exploitation,  and  also to improve their social and economic status ,  the poor Indian laborers  agreed to  go and work as indentured laborers in foreign colony countries . From 1834 to the end of the Second World War in 1917, Britain had transported about 2 million Indian indentured workers from India to 19 colony countries. 

The Indian Presence in Guyana today [ Indo-Guyanese]: The indentured laborers recruited  from Bhojpuri speaking area in India [ now U.P] were embarked at emigration depot at Calcutta and the Tamil Indentured laborers recruited from the then Madras Presidency were embarked at Emigration depot at Madras Port . The descendants of the immigrants from Madras province  are called as Madrasis in Guyana. Majority of the indentured laborers brought from India to Guyana came from the so called low and backward castes and  all of them were  very poor and powerless . The descendants of the indentured laborers brought from India to Guyana in Coolie Steamships , to work in the Plantations in Guyana, today by their hard work and natural competent intelligence have become a social, economic, cultural, educational and political power in Guyana,  Now  the Indo-Guyanese  people constitute the majority  in the population of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana..All the Descendants of the Indian indentured laborers who have become the Citizens of Guyana  are called as Indo-Guyanese . Indo-Guyanese people worked very hard with tolerance  for their survival.  It is really heartening to learn that the present Prime Minster of the Cooperative Republic of the Guyana, Mr Moses V Nagamootoo is one of the descendants of a Madrasi Tamil indentured laborer brought from Madras Presidency long back.  Now I will precisely deal with the biographical  sketch, family life, journalistic  and political career of Mr.Moses V . Nagamoottoo. 

Mr Moses V Nagamootoo and his Birth and Parents: An Indo-Guyanese belonging to  Tamil ethnicity by name Mr. Nagamootoo Ramasamy and his beloved  and beautiful wife Mrs Gangama Ramasamy were living at  the idyllic  and fertile coastal  village Whim ,  in the eastern county of  Berbice , Guyana. Mrs Gangama.  Nagamootoo was born to a couple who lived in Bath Estate . Mrs Gangama's father Mr Badriveeran was a descendant of an Indentured laborer from South India who was brought to Guyana in 1847. .Ms Gangama worked in the Bath Sugar  Plantation Estate as Weeder. and her husband Ramasamy Nagamootoo was working as a laborer. Then due to some political and social reasons they moved to Whim and settled there.. And  to this blessed couple  a boy child was born on 30th November,1947, at Whim , Berbice , Guyana. Mr Nagamootoo Ramasamy and his wife Mrs.Gangama  Ramasamy Nagamootoo christened their cute  son as, Moses Veerasamy Nagamootoo. Mr. Nagamootoo Ramasamy bought  some fishing boats and began his own  fishing business; and did his  best to give the best possible education  to son Mr Moses V Nagamootoo. .

Mr Moses Veerasamy Nagamootoo and His Education :. Mr.Moses V. Nagamootoo had the natural inclination towards education and learning. and thirst for knowledge and flair for reading and writing.   Moses V Nagamootoo did his Primary School Education at Auchlyne Scot School , situated at Corentine, Berbice, Guyana. .  It is quite interesting and inspiring to learn  that Moses Verasamy  Nagamootoo, even while he was studying at the Auchlyne Scot  Primary School , he happened to meet his future wife Mary. and at that time Mr. Moses Nagamootoo was was only 11 years old and the beautiful  Mary was only 9 years old.  Even at the very first sight Moses Nagamootto was impressed , instantly infatuated by the extreme and compelling elegance of young Mary..That meeting made a lasting impression in the young  mind of Moses Nagamootoo,  After Moses Nagamootoo  left  the  Auchylyne Scot School and joined the Rose hall & Corentyne Comprehensive High School  for his  high School education. he was unable see to Mary,s face for some years. It is pertinent to mention here that the world famous Cricket Player Isaac Alvin Kalicharran  was also an old student of this Corentyne Comprehensive High School. Mr Moses V Nagamootoo  was a constant  and continuous up-grader of knowledge  so after his High School education  he pursued his upgrading education  and training in the following educational institutions,:-
[1]  Accabre College of Social Sciences [George Town , Guyana ]
[2]  Venezuelan Spanish Language Institute.
[3]  Allen White School of Journalism , University of Kansas , USA [He worked there as Visiting Journalist , and it was sponsored by U.S.Information Service]
[4]  University of Guyana [To read for his LL.B degree, graduated in 2002 ]
[5]  University of West Indies [Hugh Wooding Law School,  for Legal Education Certificate ] 

[Part .  Final will Follow  soon ]
By. P. Babu Manoharan, M.A, [ Rights reserved .This Article  will be enlarged, modified and corrected later, if needed]