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Hugh Desmond Hoyte, S.C. National Assembly Speeches: Volume 1 HUGH DESMOND HOYTE, S.C. NATIONAL ASSEMBLY SPEECHES VOLUME 1 March 1969 - November 1972 i Hugh Desmond Hoyte, S.C. National Assembly Speeches Volume 1 Compiled by Maurice B. Henry for the National Assembly, Parliament of Guyana, 2012. © The National Assembly of Guyana, 2014 Foreword © Hon. Raphael G.C. Trotman, M.P., 2014 Cover design by Peepal Tree Press All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form without permission. ISBN 978-1-907493-75-1 ii PREFACE On the death of Mr. Linden Forbes Sampson Burnham, President, on 6th August, 1985, Mr. Hugh Desmond Hoyte, Prime Minister, acceded to the Office of President. Following the 9th December, 1985 General Elections he was declared President. As his Biographical Summary shows, he held several Ministerial Offices including Vice-President and Prime Minister prior to these dates. Following the General Election held on 5th October, 1992 Dr. Cheddi Jagan was declared President on the 9th October. Mr. Hoyte became Minority Leader and he held this office until his death on 22nd December, 2002. This collection of his Parliamentary Speeches over the years 1969 to 2001 is the first step taken in keeping with the Fourth Resolved Clause of Resolution No. 67 dated 7th August, 2008 of the National Assembly, which states – “Be It Further Resolved: That this National Assembly calls on the Government to designate a State Institution to be responsible for Historical Research and Documentation to chronicle and archive all of the works of each of the Presidents of Guyana for the benefit of future generations of Guyanese.” These speeches are recorded in four volumes as follows: (i) Volume I - National Assembly of the Second Parliament of Guyana, 1969 – 1970 National Assembly of the Second Parliament of the Republic of Guyana, 1970 – 1972 (ii) Volume II - National Assembly of the Third Parliament of the Republic of Guyana, 1973 – 1980 Transnational Assembly of the Third Parliament of the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, 1980 (iii) Volume III - National Assembly of the Fourth Parliament of the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, 1981 – 1985 National Assembly of the Fifth Parliament of the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, 1986 – 1992 iii (iv)Volume IV - National Assembly of the Sixth Parliament of the Co-operative Republic of Guyana , 1992 – 1997 National Assembly of the Seventh Parliament of the Co-operative Republic of Guyana , 1998 – 2001 National Assembly of the Eight Parliament of the Co-operative Republic of Guyana , 2001 – 2006 Volume III of these speeches contains Mr. Hoyte’s addresses to the National Assembly on the Ceremonial Opening of the First and Second Sessions of the Fifth Parliament of the Co-operative Republic of Guyana. *** A number of Official Reports (Hansard) of the Proceedings of the National Assembly are missing for the years 1969 – 2002. Some of these contained speeches of the Late Hugh Desmond Hoyte, and it seems unlikely that these will ever be recovered. iv FOREWORD It is an honour to present this foreword to the parliamentary speeches of His Excellency, Hugh Desmond Hoyte, S.C. This is especially important to me because in many respects, President Hoyte was my political godfather as it was he who called me into the world of politics in the post 1992 era. These speeches will allow everyone with an interest in politics to understand better who Desmond Hoyte was and the basis upon which his decisions were made. Hugh Desmond Hoyte began his political and parliamentary career on January 3, 1969, as a Minister of Home Affairs in the 2nd Parliament of the newly independent state of Guyana. His Excellency, President Hoyte had a long and illustrious career in the National Assembly as Ministers of Government and later as Minority Leader and Leader of the Opposition. In a manner of speaking he was more than a technocrat than a politician even into his days as President. That this is so is evident from his speeches, presentations and interventions made in the National Assembly in the twenty-six years that he was a Member of Parliament. These twenty-six years were interrupted only once when he left the hallowed Chamber of the National Assembly to serve the nation in the highest office as its second executive President from 1985 to 1992. Mr. Hoyte once described to me how he became a Minister and it was due to his association as legal colleague to His Excellency, Linden Forbes Sampson Burnham, O.E., S.C. Burnham had distinguished himself at the bar as a Queen’s Counsel and practised law out of the law firm of Clarke & Martin. Desmond Hoyte later joined the firm as a Barrister, and it is there that his association with, and admiration for, Forbes Burnham was kindled and developed later into a lifelong relationship. Mr. Hoyte explained that on January 1969 Prime Minister Burnham was leaving the country on an official visit and requested that he join him at the airport for a talk on something important; however not disclosing what that important subject was. Not knowing the nature of the matter to be discussed, he informed me that he believed that it concerned some legal matter that he would be asked to assist with. Without prior notice or consultation, Mr. Burnham apparently there and then informed Mr. Hoyte that he had been appointed the Minister of Home Affairs with immediate effect! The rest as they say is history. In many regards, this is not unlike the manner in which I was made a Member of Parliament at his insistence in 1997. Hugh Desmond Hoyte went on to serve in numerous other ministerial and parliamentary capacities including: v ♦ Minister of Finance ♦ Minister of Works and Communication ♦ Minister of Economic Development ♦ Vice President- Economic Planning and Finance ♦ Vice President-Administration ♦ Vice President-Production ♦ Prime Minister Mr. Hoyte returned to the National Assembly as Minority Leader in 1992 following the defeat of the People’s National Congress at the October 5, 1992 polls, and later became Leader of the Opposition in 2001 – a position he held until his death in December 2002. In his later speeches as Minority/ Opposition Leader one can actually glean a stark difference between his presentations as Opposition Leader, as against those made when he was a Minister. In the former instance he seemed more settled and confident and in the latter, more cautious and precise. Some political pundits have argued that he should never have gone back to the National Assembly as Leader of the Opposition having been President of the Republic and that this role diminished the good contributions he had made as President. However, he was resolute in his opinion that democracy needed to be advanced in Guyana and that regular changes of government were as necessary as they were refreshing. Therefore, his was the view that being in opposition was not necessarily a retrograde step for him to take, but rather, a positive one that contributed immensely to the development of our fledgling democracy. Readers of these speeches will discover new aspects of Mr. Hoyte’s personality and his convictions, and confirm long held beliefs about his personality. Being a former school master at the prestigious Grenada Boys School, one will be able to easily see the steady, instructing and sometimes regimented way in which presentations were made by him in the Parliament Chamber. This has led many to remark that he was stoic and staid in his personality and presentations. He was a no nonsense man. One example of this can be found in a 1971 response made as Minister of Finance to concerns about a Financial Paper where in a firm manner he states: “Before proceeding, let me say this: Government makes absolutely no apology for coming to the assistance of trade unionists and workers in their endeavours to house themselves. Government is not and has never been a fair weather friend of the trade unions. From the very outset, Government demonstrated its faith and its confidence in trade unionists by becoming involved in the scheme to build these houses and by giving the necessary guarantees without which the financing would not have been available to trade unionists. I hope that nobody is under any illusion that the Government retreated one inch from the position it has always taken up in connection with this project. It is obvious that Hon. Members have vi failed to understand the nature of the scheme, although it has been debated on at least two occasions in this honourable House.” The publication of the Presidents’ speeches is a tremendously important contribution not only to the body of literature that exists on our politics, but just as importantly, to the development of our democracy. In many respects, the past is a light on the path for the future and these publications will take us a long way forward as we seek peaceful, cohesive and sound development as a nation. Hon. Raphael G.C. Trotman, M.P. Speaker of the National Assembly vii viii Biographical Summary: Hugh Desmond Hoyte was a former President of the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, former Leader of the main Opposition Party, the People’s National Congress (PNC) and former Leader of the Opposition in the Parliament of Guyana. Born in Georgetown, Guyana in March 9, 1929, Mr. Hoyte received B.A. and LL.B. degrees from the University of London. He was a British trained lawyer, a Barrister-at-Law of the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple and a Member of the Guyana Bar. He was appointed a Queen’s Counsel in 1969, which designation was changed to Senior Counsel in 1970 when Guyana became a Republic.
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