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Ramphal

British  
/ ˌræmˈfɑːl /

noun

  1. Sir Shridath Surendranath , known as Sunni . born 1928, Guyanese diplomat and Commonwealth Secretary-General (1975–90)

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The neighbor, Brian Ramphal, waved firefighters onto his property Monday to fight the blaze.

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In Barbados, he interviewed Sir Sonny Ramphal, the former Secretary General of the Commonwealth, for a documentary that was to be his directorial debut.

From BBC

“I watched the building go up,” said Philip Ramphal, who arrived at the casino at 6 a.m from his home on Liberty Avenue, not far away.

From New York Times

Mr. Ramphal was not a gambler, he said, but wanted to see the facility that he believed would “break or make” the community in the coming years.

From New York Times

In a report to his colleagues, Shridath Ramphal, 55, a former Guyanese Foreign Minister who serves as the Commonwealth's secretary-general, decried "the tendency of the United States, the world's richest nation, to distance itself increasingly from the generosity and enlightenment which marked the high point of its internationalism."

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