Moses Nagamootoo? is a writer and politician from Guyana

Guyana

Guyana , officially the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, previously the colony of British Guiana, is a sovereign state on the northern coast of South America that is culturally part of the Anglophone Caribbean. Guyana was a former colony of the Dutch and of the British...

. He was born in the village of Whim. He has served in the Parliament of Guyana, and was Minister of Information.

He is the author of the novel Hendree's Cure (2001), which describes a world of Madrassi fishermen who inhabited the Corentyne village of Whim in the 1950s and 1960s.

Nagamootoo is a member of the People's Progressive Party

People's Progressive Party (Guyana)

The People's Progressive Party is a political party in Guyana led by Bharrat Jagdeo. The party has been in power since the 1992 elections and currently holds 36 of the 65 seats in the National Assembly.-History:...

(PPP). At its 29th Congress on August 2, 2008, he received the fifth-highest number of votes (595) in the election to the PPP Central Committee.

Nagamootoo was rumoured to be a potential PPP candidate for president in 2011; however, he resigned from the party on October 24, 2011, due to his feeling of "more ideas and a new conversation about Guyana's economic and foreign policy future".