According to News Americas Now, By News Americas Now Staff Writer News Americas Now, NY, NY, Sun. Oct. 11, 2026: Eusi Kwayana , one of Guyana’s most enduring political figures and a founding member of the Working People’s Alliance (WPA), has died at age 101. Kwayana , born Sydney Evanson King on April 4, 1925, died Saturday, October 10, at his home in Atlanta, Georgia, closing out a political and intellectual life that spanned colonial rule, the fight for self-government, and decades of activism in independent Guyana. Born in Lusignan on Guyana’s East Coast of Demerara, Kwayana moved to Buxton at age seven, a village that would shape his political identity for the rest of his life. He entered politics in the 1940s through village organizing, and around 1947 joined Dr. Cheddi Jagan and others in founding the People’s Progressive Party (PPP). After the PPP’s 1953 election victory, Kwayana se