MINISTER of Social Protection Volda Lawrence was the guest of honour at a ceremony organised by the Anna Catherina Islamic Complex’s Akbar Hussain Lecture Hall on Saturday last.
In expressing her appreciation for the gesture, the minister made two requests of her hosts. “One, that you pray for wisdom not only for the Government, but for all of us. Wisdom is my key word, and I trust God that it will be my key word for the next five years because as a child growing

up in Guyana and as an adult, I always hear of all the potential we have, but it seems as though we lack the wisdom to be able to take it to the higher level…The next thing I’m going to ask you to pray for is humbleness.”

Minister Lawrence noted that “all of us, irrespective of where we came from and irrespective of what portfolio we hold, that we will walk in humility. That we will humble ourselves and in doing that we will recognise that we will have to humble our hearts.”
The minister asked that God grant all these wishes as there is a lot of work for all to do so that a land can be built, so that youths can take their cues, “not from television, not from the greatest dancer, not from the greatest actors but from their parents, the people whom they see every single day”.
Head of the Inter Religious Organisation, Ronald Mc Garrell, accompanied Minister Lawrence to the event which was organised as part of the Islamic Ramadan Observances.
Other speakers included overseas based former President of the Guyana United Islamic Anjuman, Shamshudin Rahaman; Head of the Political Division of the Ministry of the Presidency, Abdool Kareem; and President of the Guyana Islamic Forum of Education, Peace and Religious Solidarity, Roshan Khan. (GINA)