The Observer
VINTAGE JAGAN: and another Jagan may yet be a future president of Guyana – grandson of former Executive Presidents, Dr. Cheddi Jagan and his redoubtable wife and partner, Mrs. Janet Jagan. Somewhere in the stratosphere, the Father and Mother of the Nation must be laughing exultantly. Their beloved grandson has come of age. He has at long last entered the fray against the protagonists who aspire to destroy the great legacy of struggle and achievements of his iconic freedom-fighting grandparents.

He is matured enough today to accept and applaud the choice made by the elder Jagans to leave the captaincy of the Guyana ship to their young protégée, Bharrat Jagdeo; and Cheddi 3rd could find no greater way to honour his grandparents, for in this public acknowledgement that Bharrat Jagdeo as President has vindicated his grandparents’ choice, he is telling the world that he is now prepared to take up the cudgels where his grandparents left off in defence of the Guyanese nation, and the struggles, endeavours and achievements they have won – either directly, or through the efforts of those in whose hands they entrusted that legacy; and how well and fittingly he has begun.

The Jagan spirit yet lives on, because shades of the elder Jagans is redolent in every line written recently by Cheddi 3rd in his critical and informed essay evaluating and documenting the achievements of Bharrat Jagdeo as President in response to the vindictive, malicious and utterly repulsive report by the Council on Hemispheric Affairs (COHA) that was co-authored by Robert Cavooris & Elcin Chang.

In a scholarly and absolutely incisive analysis of Bharrat Jagdeo’s presidency, Cheddi 3rd slashed to ribbons the COHA report, highly reminiscent of the literary styles of his iconic grandparents, especially his fiery grandfather, who has been his idol and hero since he could frame the word “Why?”.

It seems that Dr Cheddi Jagan has emerged once again in the political dynamics of Guyana. Welcome home, Cheddi 3rd, your grandparents would be proud of you!

It had seemed that the grandchildren of Dr and Mrs. Jagan had relinquished their most supreme heritage, which is their Guyanese identity, but evidently it is very much alive, as the letter published in the Chronicle by Cheddi 3rd’ has proven.

The greatest joy of Dr. Cheddi Jagan’s life was provided by the time he spent with his five beloved grandchildren, and he has gifted them memories of beautiful times shared to last them a million lifetimes, but the most special, in a very indefinite way, relationship he shared was with his first grandson.
And while all of his grandchildren grieved bitterly at his loss, the most heartbreaking picture that the world saw and remember was that of a little boy hiding his tears in his father’s shoulder while his grandfather’s remains were consumed by the cremation fire.
But the real fire still blazes – in the heart, soul, mind, and pen of Cheddi Berret Jagan 111.Esq.  His public commitment at Babu John last Sunday to return home to serve his country and his grandfather’s beloved Guyanese people is in the true spirit of  Guyana’s redoubtable patriarch and matriarch – young Cheddi’s iconic grandparents. Welcome home, Cheddi 3; it is time!