PPP General Secretary, Mr. Donald Ramotar at a news conference at his party's Freedom House headquarters, Robb Street, Georgetown yesterday, said Mr. Hoyte will be remembered for making the necessary concessions that offered the first free and fair elections in independent Guyana in October 1992.

"Mr. Hoyte served Guyana at the highest level having held the post of President of the Republic from 1985 to 1992 (and) he also held several very responsible ministries since the late 1960's," Ramotar acknowledged.

According to him, Mr. Hoyte served Guyana at the level of the National Assembly for more than three decades and his advocacy in the Assembly was "always vigorous and forceful".

"He lived a full and fruitful life," the PPP General Secretary asserted.

"On behalf of the Central Committee of the PPP, I wish to once more extend our deepest sympathy to his sorrowing widow, Mrs. Joyce Hoyte, his close relatives and to the PNC as a whole on the untimely passing of Mr. Hoyte," Ramotar said.

Mr. Hoyte, who had quadruple bypass surgery since he stepped down from the presidency, died of a suspected heart attack at his North Road, Georgetown home on Sunday morning.