THE Hugh Desmond Hoyte 7th Commemorative Lecture will be held on Monday in the Savannah Suite of the Pegasus Hotel. This activity is being held in honour of the 87th birth anniversary (March 9) of the former President.The lecture will be delivered by Minister of Social Protection, Mrs Volda Lawrence, MP, Vice Chairperson and a member of the Central Executive Committee of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR). The topic of the lecture is “Development and Social Impact, 1988 – 1992.”
Previous lectures have been delivered by Dr Tyrone Ferguson, late Head of the Presidential Secretariat; Sir John Mitchell, former Prime Minister of St. Vincent & the Grenadines; Mr. Carl Greenidge, former Minister of Finance; Mr. Stanley Ming, one of the founders of the Reform component of the party and a reputable businessman; Major General (ret’d) Joseph Singh; and Mrs. Supriya Singh-Bodden, CCH.
Hoyte, SC, was the second executive President of Guyana.

He is widely credited for restoring growth in the economy by implementing an Economic Recovery Programme.