{"id":7118,"date":"2021-05-16T13:16:59","date_gmt":"2021-05-16T18:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/?p=7118"},"modified":"2021-05-16T13:30:43","modified_gmt":"2021-05-16T18:30:43","slug":"afc-mourns-loss-of-vic-persaud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/?p=7118","title":{"rendered":"AFC Mourns Loss of Vic Persaud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Media release<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>For immediate release<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Sunday, May 16, 2021<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>AFC Mourns Loss of Vic Persaud<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The Alliance For Change (AFC) mourns the death of Eshwar Vevekanand &#8216;Vic&#8217; Persaud, former Chief of Protocol, who passed away on Thursday, May 13, 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Vic Persaud was a consummate Public Servant who served nine Presidents, and the government and people of Guyana, without favour or ill will. He was humble, amiable and &#8220;down to earth&#8221; &#8211; always willing to share his vast knowledge and experience with new entrants into the public service, and even with elected officials.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Mr. Persaud will be remembered as a true example and embodiment of what the motto &#8220;service above self&#8221; means and should represent to a young and upcoming generation of Guyanese who aspire to serve their country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The AFC extends condolences to the wife, children and family of Eshwar Vevekanand &#8216;Vic&#8217; Persaud and pray that his soul will rest in eternal peace.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">-END-<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">May 16, 2021<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media release For immediate release Sunday, May 16, 2021 &nbsp; AFC Mourns Loss of Vic Persaud &nbsp; The Alliance For Change (AFC) mourns the death of Eshwar Vevekanand &#8216;Vic&#8217; Persaud, former Chief of Protocol, who passed away on Thursday, May 13, 2021. Vic Persaud was a consummate Public Servant who served nine Presidents, and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7122,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latestnews","category-pressreleases"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/image001-1.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4F7T1-1QO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7118"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7128,"href":"https:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7118\/revisions\/7128"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afcguyana.com\/afcnew\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}