Tabitha Sarabo-Halley now with WIN – her 4th party in 5 years

Former Parliamentarian Tabitha Sarabo-Halley Monday made her first appearance on the 2025 election campaign as a candidate for the We Invest in Nationhood (WIN) party led by US-sanctioned businessman Azruddin Mohamed.

Sarabo-Halley appears on WIN’s list of candidates which was submitted to the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) on Nomination Day on Monday, July 14, 2025.

This signals her fourth change in political parties over the last five years, and her departure from the Guyana Nation Builders Movement (GNBM) – an obscure political party she formed in 2021.

In 2019, Sarabo-Halley replaced Dr. Rupert Roopnarine in the National Assembly as the representative of the Working People’s Alliance (WPA). That same year, she became Minister of Public Service under the then APNU+AFC Government.

After the defeat of the APNU+AFC at the polls in 2020, she remained a member of the WPA which was still one of the parties within the APNU.

However, later that year she resigned from the WPA after that party broke ranks with the APNU. To retain her seat in the National Assembly, Sarabo-Halley reasoned that she was occupying the seat as an “independent”.

Shortly after, she launched GNBM and has been the lone face of that party until her reappearance yesterday as a candidate for WIN.

“I understand people are saying it’s a surprise but for me personally I had to make a decision. The people made a choice, the people want to see something different, something new…” she said in an interview on the sidelines of the Nomination Day activities.

She went on to add that her role as a “servant leader is to ensure the people get what they deserve”.

Mere weeks after becoming a Minister of Government, Sarabo-Halley arbitrarily fired several employees at the Ministry of Public Service without reason.

The then APNU+AFC government initially denied the claims but later commissioned a Board of Inquiry which found that her actions were “unlawful”. No disciplinary action was ever taken against her for the dismissals.