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	Desmond Hoyte - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hugh Desmond Hoyte (March 9, 1929 - December 22, 2002) was a Guyanese politician.
		Hoyte announced his willingness to continue the dialogue, but also announced that a general election would be held on December 9.
		Hoyte was also foreign minister from 1990 until 1992.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Desmond_Hoyte (368 words)

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		Dev said too that Hoyte has to be remembered for laying the foundation for the country's economic recovery as under his leadership it swallowed the bitterest pill of IMF conditionalities to lay the foundation for the country's economic recovery between 1989 and 1992.
		Hoyte as President is the architect of the Iwokrama Rainforest Project and as Minister of the Government he had at various times responsibility for African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) affairs under the Lome Convention and was the group's spokesman for sugar from 1981-1983.
		Hoyte also had a keen interest in trade union affairs and up to the time of his death was President of the Guyana Labour Union, another of the responsibilities he took over after Burnham died and was at various times Legal Adviser to the Trades Union Congress and several of its member unions.
	www.spiceislander.com /pages/news/news122302.htm (1621 words)

	GuyanaJournal \| Hoyte
		He was aware, he said, that Desmond did not have a great yearning for the Presidency, but strangely he did not regard that as a deficiency; strangely, because he often voiced his view that a good political leader must have a great hunger for leadership.
		It was Desmond’s absence of ‘hunger’ for personal primacy that led to the 1992 General Election and a democratic change of Government – one that could not have occurred unless Desmond Hoyte had acknowledged to himself before the Election that he could live without being President.
		Desmond knew that it was time for policy change on the economic front in particular; but he knew too that he had to inaugurate a new environment of non-racial governance – as others before and after him were to try to do as well.
	www.guyanajournal.com /hoyte_sr.html (662 words)

	Guyana Caribbean Politics - Desmond Hoyte 1929-2002
		He said Hoyte had “traveled the same road taken by the giants of Caribbean statehood and political leadership, many of whom are recalled for their contribution to the struggle for the self-determination of the peoples of the Caribbean.
		Hoyte was born in Georgetown on March 9, 1929 to Gladys Marietta Hoyte and George Alphonso Hoyte of Georgetown.
		Hoyte returned to Guyana in 1960, entered private practice, and played an active role in the Guyana Bar Association, of which he was the Secretary for many years.
	www.guyanacaribbeanpolitics.com /commentary/hoyte.html (1758 words)

	Desmond Hoyte
		Hoyte in the Chronicle in 1999, I opined then that he was an enigmatic personality, and there is no reason since 1992 to suppose otherwise.
		Hoyte agreed and the police perambulated the streets of Georgetown, while PNC strongmen returned to the reality that the election was lost.
		Desmond Hoyte is a person who believes in loyalty, The combination of loyalty and admiration made him a Burnham faithful.
	www.caribvoice.org /Opinions/Kissoon/hoyte.html (3600 words)

	Desmond Hoyte (1929-2002)
		Desmond Hoyte's knowledge of poetry and his understanding of English Literature as a whole were a source of comfort as well as pride.
		Desmond Hoyte was blessedly free of the rancour and petty actions of the Guyanese political scene.
		In Desmond Hoyte's case we knew his age, we knew his medical history, we knew he pushed himself but yet still we never knew that he would be snatched away just as we prepared for the merriment of Christmas and the seriousness of the new year.
	www.guyana.org /special/hoyte/hoyte.html (8907 words)

	Welcome to ROAR Guyana Movement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Desmond Hoyte, Burnham’s chosen successor on account of his obsequiousness, ‘apparatchiki’ skills, and unswerving loyalty, was the favourite of the bureaucratic Creole elite who considered him “pragmatic” but more importantly, “one of their own”.
		Hoyte inherited a party that was severely decimated by Burnham; a bureaucracy that was debilitated by a crumbled economy and state; an army that was purged a mere six years before, and a nation demoralized and terrorized.
		Hoyte’s acceptance of the results of the 1992 elections, violently opposed by Hamilton Green, was a surprise to many including myself.
	www.guyroar.com /articlesquery.php?articleid=40 (1211 words)

	Desmond Hoyte dies at 72 - JAMAICAOBSERVER.COM
		Hoyte, a lawyer by training, led Guyana for seven years after the 1985 death of the PNC's founder, Forbes Burnham and was credited for a programme of economic liberalisation and political opening that ultimately led to the 1992 election victory of the People's Progressive Party (PPP) and the end of 28 years of PNC rule.
		Hoyte was earlier re-elected leader of the PNC at the party's biennial congress when potential candidates withdrew their nominations.
		After Burnham died in 1985 while undergoing a throat operation, Hoyte began to open the economy and encourage foreign investment and was soon returned to office in an election on which the controversial system of overseas and postal voting was abolished.
	www.jamaicaobserver.com /news/html/20021222T230000-0500_37016_OBS_DESMOND_HOYTE_DIES_AT___.asp (608 words)

	Death, Interment and Leadership at the Crossroads
		Finally, Desmond Hoyte established himself as a supreme regionalist, a muted political integrationist, and rapidly built his knowledge base by associating with renowned technocrats and scholars and executing and implementing policies that effectuated it.
		Hoyte felt that by appealing to that sector’s economic interests they would abandon their ethnic base for the good of the nation, as he saw it.
		Hoyte’s successor, at this crucial juncture, would ideally extend the positive aspects of his legacy and serve the nation well at this crossroad by forging ahead on an agenda of political and regional federation.
	www.ecaroh.com /bmp/think/canwetalk030101.htm (1071 words)

	Desmond Hoyte (1929-2002)
		Subsequent invitations by Hoyte for him to join the PNC prior to 1992 were refused because he felt unsure of being able to make a contribution.
		He reminisced on his working relations with Hoyte and on his score sheet of economic growth, inclusiveness, and while in opposition, avenues of cooperation, dialogue and a far reaching proposal crafted on the eve of his demise to ensure equity and justice.
		A military officer salutes Joyce Hoyte after presenting her with the national flag which had been draped on the casket of her husband, former President Desmond Hoyte prior to interment at the Seven Ponds, Botanical Gardens, last evening.
	www.guyana.org /special/hoyte/hoyte_funeral.html (1605 words)

	GuyanaJournal \| Hoyte
		HUGH Desmond Hoyte has been a significant politician-statesman in Guyana for over thirty years, one-half of which time he was leader both in government and opposition of the People’s National Congress.
		Desmond Hoyte would be known for dismantling Burnham’s economic and political dictatorship.
		However, in my opinion, the finest and most courageous hour of Desmond Hoyte was when, in the face of an inevitable split in his party, he allowed electoral democracy under his presidency.
	www.guyanajournal.com /hoyte_mn.html (953 words)

	GUYANA'S CHOICE -- The 1997 General Elections
		Janet Jagan, one of the original founders of the PPP and also wife of the late party leader, was chosen as the PPP/Civic's Presidential Candidate.
		Desmond Hoyte succeeded the late Forbes Burnham (Guyana's first executive president) as leader of the PNC in 1985.
		Desmond Hoyte was chosen as his party's Presidential Candidate for the upcoming elections.
	www.guyana.org /Elections/elections.htm (365 words)

	Notes from a small island
		Desmond Hoyte's passing is the big regional news story these days, and Nicholas writes about it, noting with admiration that the former Guyanese President was instrumental in founding the Stabroek News, as well as the setting up of the Guyana Prize for Literature.
		After the death of Mr Burnham in August 1985, Mr Hoyte was made leader of the PNC and President of Guyana.
		Former Guyanese President Desmond Hoyte is also dead, and also apparently of a heart attack.
	jonathanali.blogspot.com /2002_12_22_jonathanali_archive.html (2042 words)

	Jamaica Gleaner - Memories of Desmond Hoyte - Thursday \| January 2, 2003
		Hoyte simply to say how greatly I admired the idea and the vision which seemed to me in scope, implications and potential for the world working fruitfully together to lie quite outside and beyond ordinary political and diplomatic initiatives.
		Hoyte promptly replied in quite a long letter, which I cannot put my hand on for this column but hope to find again in my chaotic archives, in which he explained with impressive conviction the nature of what he thought might be achieved as the years passed.
		Hoyte's name should forever be linked with the Iwokrama concept which all of us can only hope will thrive and bear increasing fruit.
	www.jamaica-gleaner.com /gleaner/20030102/cleisure/cleisure4.html (794 words)

	Jamaica Gleaner - Politics: The threats of Seaga and Hoyte - Sunday \| November 19, 2000
		Seaga, apparently re-energised by his overwhelming defeat of a challenge to his leadership of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), was threatening massive street protests of the dreaded scale experienced during the political turmoil of the 1970s.
		Last week in Guyana, the 72-year-old Desmond Hoyte, leader of the main opposition People's National Congress (PNC) and a former President of the country who has led his party into two unsuccessful general elections - 1992 and 1997 - was again threatening the existence of the PPP/Civic administration.
		Hoyte met with the press last week against the background of expressed difficulties by the Guyana Elections Commission (GEC) to meet the January 17, 2001 deadline, with thousands of electors still to be photographed for voter ID and delay in passage of relevant electoral laws including the allocation of seats for the respective regions.
	www.jamaica-gleaner.com /gleaner/20001119/cleisure/cleisure5.html (1048 words)

	Good and sad times of Desmond Hoyte - JAMAICAOBSERVER.COM
		The government and the PNC/R have been co-operating since Hoyte's death in the arrangements for tomorrow's funeral at the Parliament Building before the late PNC/R leader is finally laid to rest at 'The Seven Ponds', also known as 'Place of the Heroes' in the Botanic Gardens.
		But Hoyte was also wise enough to stay with Burnham's very positive policy of firm commitment to Caricom, and had the opportunity to host a summit meeting in 1986 amid raging controversies over the conduct of the 1985 general election into which he had, for the first time, led the PNC.
		Hoyte's own legacy as head of the PNC and leader of the opposition, most decidedly contrasts with the statesmanship he displayed as president.
	www.jamaicaobserver.com /columns/html/20021229T010000-0500_37294_OBS_GOOD_AND_SAD_TIMES_OF_DESMOND_HOYTE.asp (873 words)

	GINA \| GOVERNMENT INFORMATION AGENCY \| GUYANA
		Hoyte was a Barrister-at-Law of the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple and a Member of the Guyana Bar.
		In 1969 Hoyte was appointed to the Queen’s Council.
		Hoyte was the architect of the Iwokrama International Rainforest Project in Guyana, which he initiated at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, in 1989.
	www.gina.gov.gy /natprofile/formerpresidents.html (2294 words)

	People's National Congress - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		After Burnham's death in 1985, President Desmond Hoyte took steps to stem the economic decline, including strengthening financial controls over the parastatal corporations and supporting the private sector.
		In August 1987, at a PNC Congress, Hoyte announced that the PNC renounced ideological socialism.
		As the elections scheduled for 1990 approached, Hoyte, under increasing pressure from inside and outside Guyana, gradually opened the political system.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/People's_National_Congress (197 words)

	Good and sad times Of Desmond Hoyte
		It is fitting that Hoyte be eulogised, as is being done in various quarters and not just the party he inherited from Burnham, for his positive contributions.
		The other side of him, as Opposition Leader from 1992 to the time of his death a week ago, stands in sharp contrast, more as a warrior politician of divisive, confrontational politics, than the statesmanship for which he is being hailed in death.
		When Burnham died on August 6, 1985 and he became the second Executive President and new leader of the PNC, Hoyte was to pay tribute to him as "a master- builder" and "creative genius" who had left "a legacy of solid and enduring achievement".
	www.landofsixpeoples.com /news022/nc212293.htm (948 words)

	Guyana - From Burnham to Hoyte (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Vice President Desmond Hoyte became the new executive president and leader of the PNC.
		Hoyte's administration lifted all curbs on foreign activity and ownership in 1988.
		Hoyte abolished overseas voting and the provisions for widespread proxy and postal voting.
	www.countrystudies.us /guyana/18.htm (260 words)

	Desmond Hoyte (1929-2002)
		Desmond Hoyte with the adoring crowd during the 1992 elections campaign.
		Desmond Hoyte (second from left) at a CARICOM meeting with, from left, Trinidadian President ANR Robinson, St Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister James Mitchell and Trinidadian Prime Minister Basdeo Panday.
		PNCR Leader Desmond Hoyte (left) with wife Joyce on his return to Guyana in July 1993 after undergoing heart surgery and convalescence in the United States.
	www.guyanacaribbeanpolitics.com /special/hoyte/hoyte_pictures.html (1227 words)

	Internalnational Reaction to the Death of Mr. Hugh Desmond Hoyte (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Hoyte, it is our hope that they will continue to pursue the process of national unity in their Country and the overall integration of the Caribbean Community.
		Carrington said that as a member of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community during Hoyte’s tenure of President (1985-1992), the region was honoured in finding him a committed proponent of the regional integration movement, devoted to advancing the aspirations for a strong and viable community.
		Meanwhile, in a message to the PNCR, Carrington noted that Hoyte could not be faulted for his commitment to his country nor to the region as reflected by the Herdmanston Accord and the St Lucia Statement.
	www.guyanapnc.org /MediaCentre/PressRelease/International%20Reaction%20To%20The%20Death%20Of%20Hugh%20Desmond%20Hoyte.html (1533 words)

	Guyana (08/05)
		Following Burnham's own death in 1985, Prime Minister Hugh Desmond Hoyte acceded to the presidency and was formally elected in the December 1985 national elections.
		Hoyte gradually reversed Burnham's policies, moving from state socialism and one-party control to a market economy and unrestricted freedom of the press and assembly.
		In December 2002 Desmond Hoyte, former President and Leader of the Opposition, died and was replaced by Robert Corbin as chairman of the PNC/R and Leader of the Opposition.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/1984.htm (4103 words)

	Desmond Hoyte (1929-2002)
		Desmond Hoyte's private persona was as interesting and fascinating as that revealed by his political life.
		Hoyte was a father who would patiently teach his children poetry and pianoforte.
		On August 16, PNCR Leader Desmond Hoyte addressed his party's congress in what was to be his last such presentation.
	www.guyanacaribbeanpolitics.com /special/hoyte/hoyte.html (8907 words)

	The Independent (London, England): Obituary: Desmond Hoyte; Cultivated and austere former President of Guyana respected ...
		Obituary: Desmond Hoyte; Cultivated and austere former President of Guyana respected for his statesmanship.(Obituaries)
		DESMOND HOYTE was President of Guyana for seven years, from 1985 to 1992, during which time his main achievement was to repair some of the damage done by his predecessor, Forbes Burnham.
		Hoyte succeeded Burnham as President on the latter's death in October 1985.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:95759171&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (205 words)

	Desmond Hoyte -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-19)
		Hugh Desmond Hoyte (March 9, 1929 - December 22, 2002) was a (A native or inhabitant of Guyana) Guyanese politician.
		Following the December 1980 election he became one of five vice-presidents, with responsibility for economic planning, finance, and regional development, becoming a close associate of the President of Guyana and PNC leader (Click link for more info and facts about Forbes Burnham) Forbes Burnham.
		Hoyte's chances of achieving a national reconciliation were thereby diminished.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/d/de/desmond_hoyte.htm (400 words)

	Hugh Desmond Hoyte
		Hugh Desmond Hoyte was one of the most spotless and dignified characters of Guyana and when the history of this country is written he will also be acknowledged as one of the sincerest patriots of the nation.
		Hoyte seemed to be always looking for a new conceptual reality - one that would forge growth on the economic and social fronts.
		Hoyte perceived free markets as the great engines of economic development, and likewise, he envisioned freedom of expression as the engine of social growth and development.
	www.ecaroh.com /bmp/lead_act/desmond_hoyte.htm (872 words)

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