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ANOTHER member of the legal profession has passed away, the latest being well-known attorney-at-law Mr. Randolph Kirton, of Lot 170 Conservancy Drive, D’Urban Backlands, Georgetown. He died at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) yesterday after a brief illness. Having worked up to Friday last, he was admitted to the hospital on Saturday and died around 05:30 hrs yesterday.
He lived a full life and was 77 years old.
News of his demise also shocked the legal fraternity of which he had been part for decades, as well as the local trade union movement.
Kirton’s death has brought to three, the number of distinguished members of the Bar whose was recorded in just under two months. The others were Mr. Vic Puran, 59, on October 16, in an accident at Mahaicony, East Coast Demerara and, on November 14, Professor Calvin Eversley, who succumbed at the Balwant Singh Medical Centre in Georgetown, at 63, after a short illness, too.
Kirton, a man with a humanaitarian touch, spent a considerable portion of his life representing the cause of people, essentially the working class, which he did with a passion.
Apart from representing clients in a legal capacity, known to his friends as ‘Randy’, he was also a militant trade unionist and served on the Executive Committee of the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) for a number of years.
His death has come a few months after that of another trade vibrant and well respected union activist, Mr. Vernon Thomas, who was an active member of the GPSU and spent some 20 years representing the working class. He died in New York at 72.
Kirton was also a political figure, having served both the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) and the People’s National Congress (PNC).
It was during the PPP regime that he was granted a scholarship to study Law in East Germany and, on completion of his studies, he returned to Guyana and was admitted to the Bar.
Kirton is said to have received formal training in International Relations in Puerto Rico, which he used a filip in the discharge of his duties and responsibilities, as he sought to play a lead role in bettering the lives of the working-class.
He lived a full life and was 77 years old.
News of his demise also shocked the legal fraternity of which he had been part for decades, as well as the local trade union movement.
Kirton’s death has brought to three, the number of distinguished members of the Bar whose was recorded in just under two months. The others were Mr. Vic Puran, 59, on October 16, in an accident at Mahaicony, East Coast Demerara and, on November 14, Professor Calvin Eversley, who succumbed at the Balwant Singh Medical Centre in Georgetown, at 63, after a short illness, too.
Kirton, a man with a humanaitarian touch, spent a considerable portion of his life representing the cause of people, essentially the working class, which he did with a passion.
Apart from representing clients in a legal capacity, known to his friends as ‘Randy’, he was also a militant trade unionist and served on the Executive Committee of the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) for a number of years.
His death has come a few months after that of another trade vibrant and well respected union activist, Mr. Vernon Thomas, who was an active member of the GPSU and spent some 20 years representing the working class. He died in New York at 72.
Kirton was also a political figure, having served both the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) and the People’s National Congress (PNC).
It was during the PPP regime that he was granted a scholarship to study Law in East Germany and, on completion of his studies, he returned to Guyana and was admitted to the Bar.
Kirton is said to have received formal training in International Relations in Puerto Rico, which he used a filip in the discharge of his duties and responsibilities, as he sought to play a lead role in bettering the lives of the working-class.
