Moses Nagamootoo

Moses Nagamootoo
Prime Minister of Guyana
Incumbent
Assumed office 20 May 2015
President	David Granger
Preceded by	Sam Hinds
Personal details
Born	(1947-11-30) 30 November 1947 Whim, British Guiana
Political party	Alliance for Change
Other political affiliations	A Partnership for National Unity

Moses Veerasammy Nagamootoo (born 30 November 1947) is a Guyanese politician and writer who has been Prime Minister of Guyana since 2015. He is of Tamil ethnicity.

Life and career

Nagamootoo was born in the village of Whim, in the eastern County of Berbice, Guyana. He worked as a teacher and journalist, and later became a lawyer.

In a recent article (see guyanainc.biz in link) the Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo gave extensive bibliographic information about his upbringings. Notable is that after high school, he co-founded the De Edwards/Rosignal High School in the late 1960s. At that school he taught mainly Economics and British Constitution with great passion and enthusiasm, which were new subjects to the aspiring students in the West Coast Berbice, Guyana area. One of his students went on to major as a PhD. in economics and now teaches that subject at the University of California, Berkeley Extention, CA, USA.

He was elected to Parliament in 1992 as a People's Progressive Party MP and subsequently served as Minister of Information and Minister of Local Government. He remained in Cabinet under the presidencies of Cheddi Jagan, Samuel Hinds, Janet Jagan and Bharrat Jagdeo. He resigned as Minister in 2000 but remained an MP until 2011, when he resigned from the PPP, having first joined in 1964.

As a leader of the PPP, Nagamootoo received the fifth-highest number of votes (595) in the election to the PPP Central Committee at its 29th Congress on August 2, 2008.

Nagamootoo was rumoured to be a potential PPP candidate for President in 2011; however, he resigned from the party on October 24, 2011, citing the need for "more ideas and a new conversation about Guyana's economic and foreign policy future". He joined the opposition Alliance For Change (AFC) in October 2011 and was re-elected to Parliament.

Following the opposition's victory in the May 2015 general election, Nagamootoo was sworn in as Prime Minister and First Vice-President on 20 May 2015.

As a writer

He is the author of the novel Hendree's Cure (2001), which describes a world of Tamil fishermen who inhabited the Corentyne village of Whim in the 1950s and 1960s.

External links

• (Paywalled) Article on one of Nagamootoo's novels in Callaloo.
• Article on Nagamootoo in Stabroek News
• Article on Nagamootoo in Stabroek News
• Author information at Peepal Tree Press
• http://guyanainc.biz/featured-business-personnel/prime-minister-moses-nagamootoo-a-true-guyanese-patriot-and-fearless-politician/

Political offices
Preceded by Sam Hinds	Prime Minister of Guyana 2015–present	Incumbent