Ralph Ramkarran
| Ralph Ramkarran | |
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| Speaker of the National Assembly of Guyana | |
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In office 4 May 2001 – 2011 | |
| Preceded by | Martin Zephyr |
| Succeeded by | Raphael Trotman |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 11 August 1946 |
| Occupation | lawyer |
Hari Narayen Ramkaran (born 11 August 1946), known as Ralph Ramkarran, is a Guyanese politician and lawyer. He served as Speaker of the National Assembly of Guyana from 2001 to 2011.
He attended the Bel Air Primary school, Central High School and Queen’s College. After his high school education, he then went on to the UK to study law. Mr. Ramkarran qualified as a lawyer in 1972 in the United Kingdom as a member of Gray’s Inn and returned to Guyana the following year when he entered into private practice. In 1977, he joined the law firm of Cameron & Shepherd, which is now Guyana’s oldest and largest law firm. He is currently the firm’s Senior Partner. Mr. Ramkarran became a Senior Counsel of Guyana’s judiciary in 1996.
Ramkarran has spoken and lectured widely on behalf of the PPP and was the editor of its official journal, the Thunder, between 1992 and 2002. He was elected to the PPP’s Central and Executive Committees in 1974 and 1975. Mr. Ramkarran was elected to the Council of the Guyana Bar Association in 1979 and served for twelve years as Treasurer, Assistant Secretary and Secretary.
In 1994 he was elected as the Guyana Facilitator to the United Nations Good Officer Process under the Geneva Agreement relating to the Guyana-Venezuela Border controversy.
His father, Boysie Ramkarran served as British Guiana’s, Minister of Works and Communications in the 1957/61 PPP government and immediately after that Boysie Ramkarran served as Minister of Works and Hydraulics in the 1961/1964 PPP government and he was also the General Secretary of GAWU between 1975 and 1985.
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