RECENTLY nominated Presidential Candidate for the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) Mr. Donald Ramotar has been appointed Political Advisor to His Excellency President Bharrat Jagdeo. This announcement was made yesterday by Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr. Roger Luncheon at a post-Cabinet news briefing at the Presidential Complex in Georgetown.
Ramotar, who is the long-standing General Secretary of the PPP, was unanimously selected as the party’s Presidential Candidate following weeks of intense and deliberative sessions and much public speculation.
Having joined the PPP in 1967, Ramotar has been in its leadership since 1979 when he was elected to the Central Committee.  He then became a member of the Executive Committee of the party in 1983 and assumed the position of Executive Secretary one year after the PPP was restored to office in 1992.
Ramotar’s appointment as the General Secretary of the PPP came in March 1997 when Dr. Cheddi Jagan passed away, a position he still holds today.
Ramotar, an economist by training, has had extensive experience within the party and has represented the party on numerous occasions overseas.

He has published a number of articles and is a regular columnist for the Mirror newspaper. He was also a member of the ACP- EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly and a Bureau member of that organization and a serving member of Guyana’s National Assembly since 1992.