ExxonMobil’s planned development of the Payara reservoir offshore Guyana is coming under intense scrutiny before government gives the green light for the consortium’s operational plan when the country’s two-month long election controversy is resolved, officials said on Monday. Director of the Ministry of the Presidency’s Department of Environment, Dr. Mark Bynoe told a virtual news conference that several issues have ...

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) will not automatically accept the findings of the recount to declare a winner of the March 2, 2020 general elections, but will first decide whether to ask the Chief Elections Officer, Keith Lowenfield to submit a report to the seven-member body. “The Commission shall, after deliberating on the report at paragraph 11, determine whether it ...

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) on Monday issued the Order for the National Recount of votes cast in the March 2, 2020 general elections “to determine and declare the results” of those polls. There will be a live audio stream of the count and a live audio-video stream of the tabulation exercise and results. Following is the Order that was ...

by GHK Lall No matter how I look at this, I am unable to foresee how the caretaker coalition could emerge unsullied from this one re blocking the return of the Carter Center team of observers.  For in this instance of the irresistible force (international community) arrayed and moving against the coalition administration (Guyana), something is going to have to ...

United States Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemispheric Affairs, Michael Kozak on Sunday night called on the Guyana government to give the green light for the return of Carter Centre observers to observe the recount of ballots in general elections held two months ago. “The United States calls on the Government of #Guyana to approve entry for @CarterCenter and ...

The Chief Executive Officer of the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT), Justin Nedd on Sunday rubbished claims on Social Media that the phone company planned to go as far as shutting down the Internet during the 25-day recount of votes cast in general elections held two months ago. “GTT hereby states that this statement is baseless, libelous and untrue. ...

Tribute to Keith Stanislaus Massiah, S.C., O.R. – Former Chancellor of the Judiciary, Former Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs and Professor of Law, University of Guyana  By The Hon. Mde. Louise Esther Blenman, Justice of Appeal, The Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court      Both Guyana and the Caribbean have lost one of its most brilliant and fecund minds. ...

Pro-coalition Elections Commissioner, Vincent Alexander on Sunday evening slammed  objections by the opposition People’s Progressive Party (PPP) to matching the number of votes in the ballot box with the names that have been crossed off by polling day staff at the March 2, 2020 polls. GECOM  decided on Sunday to issue and publish an order in the Official Gazette for ...

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) on Sunday decided that the national recount will begin on Wednesday. Well-placed sources say that decision was taken at today’s commission meeting.  However, the commissioners were up to news time yet to decide on requests by the 10 opposition parties for votes from each Region to be counted at a time, starting from Region One. ...

The United States (US) says the Guyana government has refused to give the green light for the return of Carter Centre observers on Monday, even as the United Nations (UN), Canada and the European Union added its voice to the call. The US  Embassy  said it was informed on Saturday, May 2 that an incoming May 4 flight had been ...