Though Janet Jagan’s parents fretted about what she revealed in a 1954 letter, they weren’t surprised. They were inured to their daughter going down roads they wouldn’t dare set foot on. After ...

Janet Jagan, a daughter of a middle-class family from Chicago who became enmeshed in anti-colonial politics in Guyana and rose to become the first woman president of that South American nation, died ...

Suzanne Wasserman’s documentary Thunder in Guyana, which airs on PBS’s Independent Lens series at 10 pm on February 22, is the first in-depth look at Janet Jagan, former president of Guyan By signing ...

Janet Jagan, a Chicago nursing student who became Guyana’s first white and first female president decades after immigrating to the region, died Saturday. She was 88. Jagan died at the country’s ...

AS Guyana prepares to celebrate 60 years of Independence later this month, the Cheddi Jagan Research Centre is offering the ...

Thank you for the obituary for former Guyana President Janet Jagan. It is gratifying to read an accurate assessment of her life and accomplishments. I would like to comment on one point. I am a ...

A crowd of 5,000 gathered at the cemetery just outside British Guiana’s Georgetown capital for the funeral of a Cabinet minister. But only a few were there to mourn. Most of them were waiting for ...

The most controversial woman in South American politics since Evita Peron is Janet Jagan, 42, the American-born wife of British Guiana’s Premier Cheddi Jagan. Not only is she a white woman in a ...

GEORGETOWN (Reuters) - Former Guyana President Janet Jagan, a major political force in this small South American nation, died on Saturday at age 88, officials said. She became Guyana's first white and ...