Elections

The Joint Services have begun preparing for Guyana’s Local Government Elections (LGE) scheduled for June 12, 2023, and the public should not be alarmed, police said Wednesday. “Members of the public are hereby advised not to be alarmed by an increased Joint Services presence throughout the region,” the Guyana Police Force said in a statement. That civilian law enforcement agency ...

The European Union’s (EU) 2020 election observer mission (EOM) follow-up mission is in Guyana to assess whether progress has been made on electoral reforms in keeping with recommendations, EU Ambassador to Guyana René van Nes announced on Wednesday. “There are electoral experts right now in Guyana who are here over the coming weeks to discuss electoral reforms ahead of the ...

Leader of the People’s National Congress Reform-led A Partnership for National Unity (APNU), Aubrey Norton on Sunday night called on vendors and the business community to vote for his coalition in the June 12, 2o23 or they risk being marginalised if the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) clinches power in the City. “I want to warn the vendors. They are out ...

Amid claims and counter-claims of irregularities in the nomination process for the June 12, 2023 Local Government Elections, police said they were probing reports of threats and intimidation against persons who voluntarily decided to participate in the democratic process. “These acts of unlawful threats and intimidations will not be condoned by the Guyana Police Force,” that law enforcement agency said, ...

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, who convinced Guyana’s then People’s National Congress (PNC)-led administration to agree to major electoral reforms, has entered hospice care, instead of seeking more medical treatment. After a series of short hospital stays, the statement said, Carter “decided to spend his remaining time at home with his family and receive hospice care instead of additional medical ...

Guyanese in the 70 neighbourhoods and 10 towns will go to the polls on June 12 to elect new councillors, despite opposition concerns that a several constituency boundaries have been changed to give the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) an advantage. Local Government Minister Nigel Dharamlall  has written to the Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) Retired Justice Claudette Singh, ...

Former Region Four Police Divisional Commander, Assistant Commissioner Edgar Thomas on Wednesday told the 2020 Elections Commission of Inquiry (COI) that at the height of a bomb scare at the District Four Returning Office that informed an Election Commissioner that he could no longer protect him because the heavily armed riot squad had entered that Office. Under cross-examination by Attorney-at-Law ...

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) on Tuesday signaled that the country was once again moving closer towards the holding of Local Government Elections (LGE) after the March 13, 2023 date was aborted, but the opposition abstained from voting on the workplan. A highly placed source said LGE could be held during the second quarter – April to June- of this ...

Opposition Guyana Elections Commissioner Vincent Alexander and the GECOM Chairman Retired Justice Claudette Singh were Friday in a bitter disagreement over the “secondment” of the Information Technology Manager Aneal Giddings as an ‘Operations Coordinator’ in the Operations Department for this year’s Local Government Elections (LGE). Mr. Alexander, instead, maintained that the creation of the post of ‘Operations Coordinator’  and the  ...

Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), Retired Justice Claudette Singh on Friday ruled out the use of electronic fingerprinting at polling stations, saying it risked disenfranchising electors and would amount to a violation of the country’s Constitution. “With specific reference to the call for the introduction of a biometric identification system at every Polling Station, the decision given by ...