Tag Archives: Working People’s Alliance (WPA)

The Working People’s Alliance (WPA) on Monday said if the opposition fails to get digital biometric registration and verification of voters or a clean voters list for next year’s general and regional elections, the only option left is to train its polling agents. “The parties obviously will engage in more training of its agents and that’s the most they can ...

The Working People’s Alliance (WPA) on Monday vowed that it would not return to the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR)-led A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) unless there is democratic and consultative decision-making. “The APNU will have to convince us that it will become a democratic organisation…We made it very clear that the APNU should not become a a substitute ...

The Working People’s Alliance (WPA) on Monday dismissed suggestions that commercial banks might not want to risk accepting cash grants as a type of income to lend money because of the likelihood that the cash grant policy could be changed by a new government in office. “Why should an incoming government, if a social programme is working, want to abandon ...

The Working People’s Alliance (WPA) on Monday, in a lukewarm welcome, deemed the government’s GY$200,000 cash grant to all Guyanese households as “election gimmickry” and said much more must be done for the poor and disadvantaged. WPA Co-leader, Dr David Hinds instead said government needed to pay more cash grants to counter the rising cost of living and at the ...

By Dr. Randy Persaud, Professor Emeritus The WPA has been around since the 1970s. In the early days it played a useful role in helping the PPP remove the authoritarian People’s National Congress. One of the WPA stalwarts, Dr. Walter Rodney, was assassinated by the state in June 1980. The COI into Rodney’s death directly pointed fingers at the then ...

The Working People’s Alliance (WPA) is not ruling out coalescing with other political parties to contest the 2025 general and regional elections, but will insist on a tight agreement that must include poverty eradication, rebalancing of wealth distribution and constitutionally entrenched power sharing, co-leader Dr David Hinds said at the weekend. “Unlike the last time, when we just went in ...

The Working People’s Alliance (WPA) on Saturday announced that its veteran member David Hinds is set to lead his party into the 2025 general and regional elections. Saying that Dr Hinds, a political science professor, has been also appointed a WPA co-leader, the party said he has emerged as one of the major social and political influencers in our country. ...

By Dr. Randy Persaud, Professor Emeritus We should expect that in a time of existential threat, all political parties will put aside old partisan interests, and instead, rise like the Maginot Line to unreservedly defend the National Interest. And while the PNCR and Mr. Norton have answered that call with heads held high, we cannot say that the WPA’s initial ...

The parliamentary opposition A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) and the Working People’s Alliance (WPA) Tuesday night threw down the gauntlet at the two-year-old Irfaan Ali-led administration, signaling that they would block the holding of future elections with what they regard as a padded voters list and pressure the government to address 0ther concerns. “We are organising to ...

The Working People’s Alliance (WPA) Saturday night called for a Caribbean Community (CARICOM)-supervised national recount of votes if it is constitutional, but said the winner should set the groundwork for power-sharing within a set timeframe. “We reiterate our demand that following the examination of the ballot boxes which reveal the credibility of the elections, whichever party wins the most votes ...