page_title: Isahak Basir
section_title: Final years and death
hierarchical_section_title: Isahak Basir / Final years and death
caption_attribution_description: Cheddi Jagan Bio Diversity Park
context_page_description: Isahak Basir CCH was a Guyanese historian who was a member of the National Assembly of Guyana from 1977 to 1991. Basir was nicknamed "Uncle Tabrak" and was of Indian descent.
context_section_description: After his career in politics, Basir worked at the Essequibo Technical Institute as an advisor to the Local Administration and Board of Governors. He also worked as a journalist and as the manager of a 1,500-acre rice land for the Government of Libya. 
  In 1994, Basir was awarded the Cacique Crown of Honour for his activism.
  After Cheddi Jagan's 1997 death, Basir spoke out for Jagan's policies and platforms. In 2001, he urged the PPP to adopt Jagan's theories in a letter. That same year, he established the Cheddi Jagan Bio Diversity Park as a memorial to Jagan. 
  Basir was a member of the PPP's Central Committee even after his career in politics. In 2002, President and PPP leader Bharrat Jagdeo announced Basir would no longer be a member of the committee. He was denied a pension. 
  Shortly before his death, Basir was present at a town hall meeting in his region where he informed visitors of the meeting about the use of oil in Guyana.   
  Basir died on 1 February 2019 of heart failure.  His funeral was attended by Donald and Deolatchmee Ramotar, former President and First Lady of Guyana, Moses Nagamootoo, the Prime Minister of Guyana, and Harripersaud Nokta.
  After Basir's death, the Indian Action Committee, a Guyanese organization based in the city of Georgetown, announced plans for a statue of Basir to be built in Essequibo. One Guyanese politician, Devanand Ramdatt, suggested that a museum be named after Basir in his honour.
caption: The Cheddi Jagan Bio Diversity Park in 2010.
exif: {"Image Make": "NIKON CORPORATION", "Image Model": "NIKON D90", "Image Orientation": "0", "Image XResolution": "300", "Image YResolution": "300", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Image Software": "Picasa 3.0", "Image DateTime": "2010:03:28 09:35:43", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Co-sited", "Image ExifOffset": "222", "GPS GPSVersionID": "[0, 0, 2, 2]", "GPS GPSLatitudeRef": "N", "GPS GPSLatitude": "[7, 17, 65075261/1861870]", "GPS GPSLongitudeRef": "W", "GPS GPSLongitude": "[58, 30, 2147483605/40979008]", "GPS GPSAltitudeRef": "0", "GPS GPSAltitude": "0", "Image GPSInfo": "920", "Thumbnail Compression": "JPEG (old-style)", "Thumbnail XResolution": "72", "Thumbnail YResolution": "72", "Thumbnail ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormat": "1160", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormatLength": "6164", "EXIF ExposureTime": "1/320", "EXIF FNumber": "10", "EXIF ExposureProgram": "Unidentified", "EXIF ISOSpeedRatings": "200", "EXIF ExifVersion": "0221", "EXIF DateTimeOriginal": "2010:03:28 09:35:43", "EXIF DateTimeDigitized": "2010:03:28 09:35:43", "EXIF ComponentsConfiguration": "YCbCr", "EXIF CompressedBitsPerPixel": "4", "EXIF ExposureBiasValue": "0", "EXIF MaxApertureValue": "18/5", "EXIF MeteringMode": "Pattern", "EXIF LightSource": "Unknown", "EXIF Flash": "Flash did not fire, auto mode", "EXIF FocalLength": "18", "EXIF SubSecTime": "00", "EXIF SubSecTimeOriginal": "00", "EXIF SubSecTimeDigitized": "00", "EXIF FlashPixVersion": "0100", "EXIF ColorSpace": "Uncalibrated", "EXIF ExifImageWidth": "1024", "EXIF ExifImageLength": "680", "Interoperability InteroperabilityIndex": "R98", "Interoperability InteroperabilityVersion": "[48, 49, 48, 48]", "EXIF InteroperabilityOffset": "890", "EXIF SensingMethod": "One-chip color area", "EXIF FileSource": "Digital Camera", "EXIF SceneType": "Directly Photographed", "EXIF CVAPattern": "[0, 2, 0, 2, 1, 2, 0, 1]", "EXIF CustomRendered": "Normal", "EXIF ExposureMode": "Auto Exposure", "EXIF WhiteBalance": "Auto", "EXIF DigitalZoomRatio": "1", "EXIF FocalLengthIn35mmFilm": "27", "EXIF SceneCaptureType": "Landscape", "EXIF GainControl": "None", "EXIF Contrast": "Normal", "EXIF Saturation": "Normal", "EXIF Sharpness": "Normal", "EXIF SubjectDistanceRange": "0", "EXIF ImageUniqueID": "6f9c1eb1a57837a2ec101a43f784fdc9"}