Former WPA, APNU+AFC MP is WIN’s Prime Ministerial candidate

Tabitha Sarabo-Halley has been announced as the Prime Ministerial Candidate of the We Invest in Nationhood (WIN) party, marking yet another turn in her turbulent political career.

The announcement was made just before midnight on Saturday by WIN’s Presidential Candidate, Azruddin Mohamed, during the party’s final rally at the Marriott Beachfront in Georgetown.

Sarabo-Halley first entered the National Assembly in 2019, replacing Dr. Rupert Roopnarine as the Working People’s Alliance (WPA) representative. That same year, she was appointed Minister of Public Service under the APNU+AFC Government. But her political affiliations have shifted repeatedly since.

Following the coalition’s defeat in the 2020 General and Regional Elections, she remained a member of the WPA, which was still aligned with APNU at the time.

Later that year, however, she resigned from the WPA after the party distanced itself from the coalition. To hold on to her parliamentary seat, Sarabo-Halley claimed she was serving as an “independent.”

Not long after, she launched her own short-lived political group, the Guyana Nation Builders Movement, which failed to gain traction and ultimately saw her largely sidelined from the national political stage.

Her reemergence last month as a member of WIN underscores her pattern of shifting loyalties, moving from party to party without establishing a stable political base.

Sarabo-Halley’s selection has raised questions about WIN’s credibility, given her history of political transience and the absence of a consistent track record within any one movement.