Last Updated on Monday, 9 March 2020, 21:49 by Writer Guyana’s caretaker President David Granger on Monday suggested that the main opposition’s claims that it won the March 2, 2020 general elections based on its Statements of Poll for District Four (Demerara-Mahaica) are false. Mr Granger appeared to side with the controversial declaration by the Guyana Elections Commission’s (GECOM) District ...
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OPINION: Whoever wins this election, all of Guyana loses; a call for a government of national unity
Last Updated on Monday, 9 March 2020, 16:29 by Writer By Moses Bhagwan and Eusi Kwayana We write as two Guyanese who have come out of the leadership of both major parties, who have lived through the violence of the 1960s, and who have been following with deep sadness and alarm the news of the outbreak of conflict following a ...
Read More »OPINION: Accept results of verifiable count to close gap between horror and hope
Last Updated on Monday, 9 March 2020, 16:12 by Writer By Nigel Westmaas Guyana’s national election was held on Monday, March 2. We are now more than a week away from that date and there is still no declaration of a ‘winner’. The elections were held under conditions of decades and decades’ long ethnic and racial division and suspicion of ...
Read More »OPINION: Local leaders must engage and most urgently: this is our problem
Last Updated on Monday, 16 March 2020, 15:28 by Writer By GHK Lall The High Court will meet again on Tuesday, then what? It will rule shortly after on a way forward, then what? I can say this with utter confidence: it is inevitable that one group would feel vindicated and triumphant, while the other would think that it has ...
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