People’s Progressive Party (PPP) Prime Ministerial candidate, Retired Brigadier Mark Phillips on Tuesday said the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) needs to count at least 93 boxes of ballots per day to finish the recount by May 31. “By my calculation, we should be counting somewhere about ninety-three or more boxes per day in order to reach the twenty-five-day deadline and ...
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PPP concerned about assignment of supervisor for Region Four recount
The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) has expressed concern about the Guyana Elections Commission’s (GECOM) assignment of an Information Technology (IT) staff member to supervise the recount of Region Four votes because he was implicated in an alleged malpractice during a previous tabulation exercise of those votes in March. The PPP has written to GECOM Chairman, Retired Justice Claudette Singh expressing ...
Read More »Private sector says two more recount workstations insufficient for 25-day deadline, wants clear-cut assurance on use of recount results
The Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) is “disappointed” that the National COVID-19 Task Force’s approval of a mere two more workstations to recount the remaining estimated 300,000 votes cast in the March 2, 2020 general elections. The City business organisation said the now 12 workstations would not see the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) completing the recount on May ...
Read More »GECOM to ask CARICOM vote recount scrutineers to extend stay
The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) is set to ask that the three-member Caribbean Community (CARICOM) recount team extend its stay in Guyana because the exercise is expected to last longer than 25 days, although the National COVID-19 Task Force has approved two additional workstations, Elections Commissioner Vincent Alexander said Monday. He said the increase in the number of workstations from ...
Read More »Attorney General denies saying recount will be illegal
A day after President David Granger publicly stated that he would accept “any” result declared by the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), Attorney General, Basil Williams back-pedaled on his weekend position and on Monday categorically stated that the National Election Recount (NER) can be used to determine the results. “At the duly summoned meeting of GECOM the report of the outcome ...
Read More »Granger says will accept “any” declaration made by GECOM
President David Granger on Sunday said he would accept any declaration made by the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) to determine the outcome of the March 2, 2020 general elections. “Whatever declaration is made by the Chairman of the Elections Commission will be regarded as legitimate by the Coalition,” he told reporters. That was his response to whether he would accept ...
Read More »President Granger visits recount centre
Presidential candidate for A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC), David Granger was Sunday morning visiting the vote recount centre. On arrival at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre at 8:56am, his temperature was checked by one of the doctors on duty as part of a routine check for all persons entering the building. He was accompanied on his visit ...
Read More »APNU+AFC says recount cannot be legally used to declare election results
Former Chairman of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), Basil Williams on Saturday said Guyana’s laws do not provide for the recount of votes before election results are declared, but his party’s General Secretary, Amna Ally shortly after said the vote recount would be final. “All 10 declarations are valid and subsisting and under our law, the only way they ...
Read More »US$40,000 monthly hiring of US lobbying firm formally switched from Guyana govt to APNU+AFC
The coalition of A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) has agreed to pay an American lobbying firm US$40,000 per month to reach out to the United States government, private sector and the media on the political situation in Guyana. In a letter signed by APNU Chairman, Joseph Harmon and AFC General Secretary, David Patterson, they agreed to pay ...
Read More »BREAKING: Guyana sharply rejects US requests for return of Carter Centre observers, reposes confidence in CARICOM team
The Guyana government on Friday sharply rejected the United States’ request for the return of Carter Center observers and a consultant from the International Republican Institute, citing travel restrictions due to the COVID-19 virus and Guyana’s equal confidence in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) team of scrutineers. ‘I take this opportunity to inform you and to iterate that the Caribbean Community ...
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