Last Updated on Friday, 29 March 2019, 17:23 by Writer Even as the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) and its three Guyana Elections Commissioners (GECOM) continue to object to house-to-house registration on the basis that it is not a legal requirement, PPPC supporters would be overseeing the process when it begins, a top party official said. General Secretary, Bharrat Jagdeo ...
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Harmon, Nandlall differ on house-to-house registration disenfranchising overseas-based Guyanese
Last Updated on Saturday, 30 March 2019, 22:04 by Writer The Guyana government on Friday rubbished claims that thousands of overseas-based Guyanese could be disenfranchised if their names are removed from the current voters’ list through house-to-house registration. Minister of State, Joseph Harmon said overseas-based Guyanese could not be registered if they are not at their residences when enumerators of ...
Read More »Gov’t won’t remove dual citizenship MPs yet – Harmon
Last Updated on Friday, 29 March 2019, 12:28 by Writer Minister of State, Joseph Harmon on Friday said government would not be removing its dual citizenship Members of Parliament (MPs) yet and they will all be present in the National Assembly at its next sitting on April 11. Harmon, himself a Guyanese-American, suggested that government would await the decisions of ...
Read More »OPINION: House-to-house de-registration unconstitutional
Last Updated on Friday, 29 March 2019, 9:09 by Writer By Attorney-at-Law Anil Nandlall It is now public knowledge that without the support of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP)-nominated Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) Commissioners, GECOM is moving to house-to-house registration. It is also public knowledge that this decision of GECOM is a direct response to a call from Congress Place. ...
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