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 Biographical Summary of Dr. Cheddi Jagan  

  Dr. Cheddi Jagan Founder of the People's Progressive Party, Father of the Guyanese Nation

  Growing Up (1966) This is the 1st chapter of Dr. Jagan's autobiographical work "The West on Trial"

 

 

Reminiscences of Cheddi Jagan by Janet Jagan

 When Grandpa Cheddi Was A Boy - 1990
 Cheddi Jagan - The Dentist
- 2002
Cheddi Jagan - The years 1943 to 1948 - 2000
November 1947 - A People`s Victory - November 10, 2007  
Dr. Jagan 60 Years Ago- A Voice Calling for Justice - November 17, 2007
  A Piece of Guyana's History - 1953-1955
  Cheddi Jagan -1964-1966 - 2002
  Cheddi Jagan - The Man   - 2002                                                                                               
  Uncle Cheddi - 1997                                                                                                                      Cheddi Jagan - 1938
  We Will Carry the Torch He Lit - March 10, 1997
Cheddi Jagan: 50 Years as a Parliamentarian - Oct 09, 1997
 Walking Alone? - March 1998 
  Inaugural Lecture at Cheddi Jagan Lecture Series - 1999
Remembering Cheddi - 2001
Five Years After - 2002
Cheddi Jagan - A Real Life Success Story - March 3, 2002                                                                                                           

 Cheddi - A Unique Leader - March 9, 2003
Remembering Cheddi - National Unity Should be the Watch Word - 2003
Remembering Cheddi - March 2004
Remembering Cheddi - March 2005
Cheddi Jagan - Man of the People - March 2006
Valentine's Day 1997 - (Feb 17, 2007) 
Address at Dr. Jagan's 10th Death Anniversary at Babu John - March 2007
The Advocacy of A New Global Human Order Moves Another Step Forward - Jan 2008

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Short Biography:   

  Growing Up

 7 years in the USA

 Getting into Stride

   Apprenticeship

   Victory and 133 Days in Office

   Suspension of the Constitution

   Iron Rule and Treachery

   In Office but Not in Power

  The Fires Started  

  Strife not Strike (1963)

  Force and Fraud (1964)

  1965

  1966

   1967

  1968

 1969 - 1979

 

For the complete autobiography of Cheddi Jagan read "The West on Trial" and/or
"Cheddi Jagan - My Fight for Guyana's Freedom" .

 

 

 

Pictorial-Biographical Posters
(These are copies of the original posters on display at the Cheddi Jagan Research Centre in Guyana
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read from right to left)

(you will need to have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your computer to be able to read these .pdf files)

 

Cheddi Jagan Revisited: Photo Exhibition by Eddi Rodney

Last week Monday March 19, 2009 a photographic exhibition that feature various stages of Dr Cheddi Jagan’s Life, political activities and the struggle of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) which he founded and led for decades, was opened at the National Library, Georgetown.
      This exhibition was sponsored by the Cheddi Jagan Research Centre and all of the prints, mounted on single sheet panels have been seen by the public on previous occasions.
      What is striking about these images, especially for students and others who may know relatively little of the foremost Guyanese Freedom Fighter, is the fact that Dr Jagan always appears as though he was actually evolving with the given process. If we take three or four examples:
      The 1943-1949 years, described as “Getting In Struggle” reveals the early Cheddi Jagan – the radical people’s dentist and politician. “The Third PPP Government, 1961-1964” gives the viewer some idea, some mental picture of what was the reality of the PPP as a “party in government” after it had confronted severe challenges from Anglo-American imperialism and its local allies.
      “The Struggle Continues – 1964-1969” as well as “The 1980s,” all form part of a broader assembly of pictures that depict Dr Jagan in his public role (speaking at the East Coast, Lusignan, GAWU rally for instance), or at the head of a PPP March for the democratisation of the electoral process.
      But there are also other scenes showing him relaxing with his family, on holiday with his wife Janet Jagan in Egypt, playing with his grandchildren and at his desk and office at his residence.
      Photographs from the period 1992-1997 “Victory at the 1992 Elections” as well “Father of the Guyanese Nation” are of a special interest to young people, and these may well irk those who have always ranked the PPP as “communist” and concerned only with personal power.
      Viewers can see Dr Jagan with the Tanzanian ex-President Julius Nyerere and Martin Carter. There are prints of his speaking to (then) United Nations Secretary General, Mr Boutros Ghali, and also posing for a group photograph with his first Cabinet Ministers appointed after October 5, 1992.
      Obviously, those prints over time would require renovating as the monochrome process lasts for about 15 years or at the most two decades. This exhibition provides an excellent insight into how Dr Jagan was involved at the leadership level, the role of photographs in identifying personalities and associations, and most of all the legitimacy of the nation building process coupled to the development of a new national culture.

               

 

 

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