On August 30, 2026, Guyana’s leading opposition bloc We Invest in Nationhood (WIN) marked a key milestone in its pre-election strategy with the formal inauguration of its New York chapter, a move designed to mobilize support from the large Guyanese diaspora community in the United States ahead of the 2031 general and regional elections.
In a pre-recorded video address delivered to event attendees, WIN leader and Opposition Leader Mohamed — who cannot travel to the U.S. due to active extradition proceedings stemming from alleged financial crimes he and his father Nazar Mohamed are currently contesting — made a direct appeal to overseas Guyanese to throw their weight behind his party. Urging supporters not to wait for the official election campaign season to begin organizing, Mohamed pushed diaspora members to plan early travel back to Guyana to coincide with voting and campaigning. “Guyana’s future is too important for any Guyanese whether at home or abroad to say ‘that is not my business’,” he stressed, adding that momentum for the upcoming vote must be built starting immediately. “I cannot do this alone,” he told the New York gathering.
WIN secured 16 seats in Guyana’s national parliament during the general and regional elections held one year prior, and has positioned itself as a vocal anti-corruption opposition. Mohamed reaffirmed the party’s core commitment to rooting out graft, stating: “We are willing to confront corruption wherever we may find it. We are willing to expose wrong-doing and we are willing to say what ordinary Guyanese are thinking but are afraid to say.”
The opposition leader repeated longstanding allegations of corruption against Guyana’s sitting President and several cabinet ministers — claims that incumbent officials have strongly and repeatedly denied over the past several months. He also criticized the government’s management of the country’s booming oil sector, arguing that hundreds of millions of dollars in oil revenue have been squandered through mismanagement, with little benefit trickling down to ordinary Guyanese citizens.
“My position is simple: Guyana’s oil must not create a new political oligarchy, it must not enrich a small circle of politically connected families when the people, who own the resource, are left behind,” Mohamed said. He outlined his vision for a more equitable Guyana, where national wealth is broadly shared rather than concentrated among political allies and wealthy elite, and corrupt officials face meaningful consequences for wrongdoing.
Mohamed challenged the newly launched New York chapter to evolve beyond a simple party outpost, framing it as a hub for Guyanese professionals, entrepreneurs and skilled workers based in the U.S. who want to contribute to rebuilding their home country. “When we take leadership of this country, we will need you. We will need your skills, we will need your experience,” he told attendees.
Vishnu Panday, a senior WIN executive member, addressed the relatively small turnout at the launch event, noting that turnout strength in this context was measured by quality of attendees rather than raw quantity. “The audience that we have here tonight is not a mammoth crowd; it is a quality crowd,” Panday said.