The Working People’s Alliance (WPA) is calling for the immediate reinstatement of the Critchlow Labour College (CLC) subvention which was approved by Parliament, and condemns as “unacceptable” what it calls the government’s “spurious reasons” for its withdrawal given several weeks ago by Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr Roger Luncheon.

“For the government to attempt to justify the withholding of the funds to the college as being in consonance with its decision to withhold the subvention to the Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) until such time as the impasse between the GTUC and FITUG (Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Guyana) is settled is nothing short of an abomination,” the party declared in a press release yesterday. “And just as abominable,” the WPA said, “is the silence of those leaders of FITUG who have collaborated with the government to deny young people the opportunity to develop themselves in violation of Critchlow’s legacy