PRESIDENT David Granger on Thursday visited the home of Olive Blackmore,of Cummings Street,Georgetown.Olive will reach the milestone of 105 years next month. She was born on May 23, 1911 in Charlestown and is the mother of 10 children, eight of whom are alive.
Since the Head of State has a packed schedule for May, the month of Guyana’s Golden Jubilee celebrations, and may not be able visit her on her birthday, he visited the centenarian on Thursday, even as he prepares to travel to New York to participate in the Paris Climate Agreement Signing Ceremony.
“It’s good to be here on behalf of the Government of Guyana to honour a citizen who was born when people didn’t even have watches or radios or cellphones… there are so many similarities between her and my own mother, who also lived in Charlestown. Had my mother been alive today, she would have been 111 [years old]. I hope that Mrs Blackmore can live comfortably for the rest of her days and that her health would hold up,” the President said.
Meanwhile, her son Mervin Blackmore, who works at the Ministry of the Presidency, said that like the President, his mother too is a strong advocate for national unity. She is also a devout Catholic, who still recites the holy rosary every morning and reads the daily newspapers. (Ministry of the Presidency)