Essentially, Seetaram is dealing out red herrings to divert attention from the state-owned GuySuco's mass sacking of sugar workers. Seetaram is using the PPP and GAWU as scapegoats too. I can attest to the fact that traditionally the PPP has honored many ordinary and mid-level party members with the party flag and song at their funerals. That noble tribute is not reserved for top-tier party members only. One such funeral I attended in 1983, that of a lower-level member named Lionel Jaikarran. Cheddi Jagan himself spoke at that funeral.
Honestly, I don't know the background of the recently deceased man in Berbice but I am reasonably assuming that he was a PPP and/or GAWU activist.