Police surveillance files say PPP, WPA plotted to overthrow Burnham gov’t

Leslie James

The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) and the Working People’s Alliance (WPA) together had planned to overthrow the then PNC government, according to surveillance records of the Guyana Police Force.

Police Special Branch files, read yesterday before the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the killing of Dr. Walter Rodney, exposed the mass surveillance of the PPP and the WPA by the police force.

The Special Branch deals with matters of national security, while investigating areas of interest to the state, such as