Elections

Even as Attorney General Anil Nandlall announced that government would be appealing a Guyana Court of Appeal decision that it has jurisdiction to hear an election petition appeal,  Local Government Minister Nigel Dharamlall on Wednesday defended his description of the Chancellor of the Judiciary Yonette Cummings and Justice of Appeal Dawn Gregory as “biased”. “The next step is that the ...

Minister of Local Government, Nigel Dharamlall’s public call for the removal of two Court of  Appeal judges after they ruled against his People’s Progressive Party in an election petition case was Tuesday night sharply condemned by opposition parliamentarian Annette Ferguson and other supporters of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR). Shortly after the majority 2-1 decision by Justice Dawn Gregory ...

Mr. Vishnu Persaud was Tuesday morning sworn in as Guyana Elections Commission’s (GECOM) new Chief Election Officer, promising to be “neutral” and to obey the country’s election laws. “Nobody has to have any worry about my neutrality or that I may deviate from the path of what is lawful and proper,” he told reporters shortly after taking the oath of ...

The Alliance For Change (AFC) on Saturday set itself a part from its major coalition partner, A Partnership for National Unity (APNU), in staying clear of criticising the process that led to the appointment of Vishnu Persaud as Guyana’s new Chief Election Officer. The AFC highlighted that anyway the appointment went, it would have been rejected by half of Guyana’s ...

Opposition Leader Joseph Harmon on Friday lampooned the Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), Retired Justice Claudette Singh for voting with the pro-People’s Progressive Party (PPP) election commissioners to appoint Vishnu Persaud as Chief Election Officer. “The Chairman of GECOM yet again shifted the goal post and changed the rules of the game to suit the People’s Progressive Party,” ...

The seven-member Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) on Tuesday appeared split down the middle over whether former Deputy Chief Election Officer (DCEO) Vishnu Persaud should be given the nod to succeed Keith Lowenfield as Chief Election Officer (CEO). Pro-People’s Progressive Party (PPP) Elections Commissioner, Bibi Shadick was quite confident that Mr. Persaud could be appointed “hopefully by the end of the ...

The opposition Alliance For Change (AFC) and A New and United Guyana (ANUG) disagree with the GY$10 million fines and life imprisonment for a number of election offences but the government said attempts to cheat an election amount to toppling an elected government. ANUG Chairman, Attorney-at-Law Timothy Jonas said the way the proposed amendments to the Representation of the People ...

Attorney General Anil Nandlall has sought to justify the splitting of Region Four (Demerara-Mahaica) into four electoral districts. “District number four is a special district in the electoral equation of our country. It is the most populated. It always has the greatest number of controversy so what we are proposing in these amendments, we are subdividing it,”  he said on ...

The Chief Elections Officer of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) could be fined GY$10 million and jailed for 10 years if he or she posts a false statement of poll on the commission’s website, according to wide-ranging amendments to the Representation of the People Act (RoPA). “The objective of the amendments to the electoral laws is to examine the process ...

President Irfaan Ali minutes on Friday announced that draft amendments to the election laws will be circulated for public consultations next month. He said the Attorney General Anil Nandlall was Thursday been tasked with circulating the draft laws next week to allow for six weeks of consultations. “We have to have an efficient time-frame on this,” the President told a ...