Former President Dr. Bharat Jagdeo is one of the candidates nominated for a top position in the People’s Progress Party/ Civic Central Committee. The former president’s name is on a list of nominees recommended by various groups to be elected as a member of the Central Committee at this weekend’s party congress.
Chairman of the National Congress Committee, Minister Clement Rohee, said the former president will however have to indicate, like the other nominees, whether he accepts the nomination.
During Jagdeo’s tenure as president, major economic and social reforms were undertaken in Guyana.  When he relinquished office, Guyana was concluding its fifth consecutive year of strong economic growth, often out-pacing all other countries in South America.
 In his final term as president, President Jagdeo became a global advocate for international action to avert the worst extremes of climate change.