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Martin Carter

Died in 1997

Martin Carter was born on 7 June 1927 in Georgetown, into a middle-class coloured family of African, Indian and European descent. A pupil at Queen's College, he joined the post office and then the prison service. A founding member of the People's Progressive Party, he was arrested in October 1953 and held without charge until January 1954, then imprisoned again for six months. Minister of Information after independence, he left the government in 1970 and afterwards taught at the University of Guyana. He died in 1997 and lies in the Heroes' Place in Georgetown.

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