Seventy years after Forbes Burnham walked away from Cheddi Jagan, their political heirs have embraced in a stunning realignment that rewrites Caribbean political history
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, October 13, 2025 - Forbes Burnham didn't just leave the People's Progressive Party in 1955—he detonated it. The split between Burnham and Cheddi Jagan, co-founders who had once stood shoulder-to-shoulder against colonial rule, fractured Guyanese politics along fault lines that would define the nation for seven decades.

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