Georgetown : The death anniversary of Mr. Linden Forbes Sampson Burnham is today and the time is taken for a reflection on his life. This morning the People’s National Congress commemorates his 30th death anniversary and celebrates the memory and works of this leader with a wreath laying ceremony held at the for,er President's moesulem at the Botanical Gardens.
.Linden Forbes Sampson Burnham became the first Executive President of Guyana in 1980, having led the nation to Independence in 1966 and to Republican status in 1970. President Burnham taught the Guyanese people to be proud of themselves and their nation and had a vision of building a Guyana that was racially harmonious and prosperous. Above all else, he insisted that Guyana should grow more food and be self-sufficient in food production. He took the ethic of self-sufficiency to the rest of the Region, when he proposed to the CARICOM Summit in Trinidad, in 1983, that the Region must put programmes in place to make it self-sufficient in food.
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