Eusi Kwayana, one of the longest-serving figures in Guyanese public life, has died at the age of 101. The longtime leader of the Working People's Alliance passed away today, closing out a career that stretched back to the years before independence. The PNCR and APNU paid tribute in a joint statement issued as news of his death spread. The parties called him a patriot and a towering figure in the political and social life of the nation. Their message also remembered him as a historian and an elder statesman. The statement opened with the words 'Brother Eusi,' the name of affection by which many knew him. Kwayana helped found the WPA and spent decades pressing for change both inside and outside electoral politics.