Elections
US ready to work with GECOM, international observers on recount -Pompeo
United States Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo United States (US) Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo has welcomed the decision by...
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Private Sector Commission says total national recount “waste of time”
The Private Sector Commission (PSC), one of the local organisations that observed last month's general elections, Monday night urged the...
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GECOM agrees to recall CARICOM team to “validate” recount; Chief Elections Officer to craft plan
The seven-member Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has agreed that a Caribbean Community (CARICOM) high-level team should return to "validate" the...
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Trinidad’s Prime Minister has “a problem” with loose misinterpretation of CARICOM-supervision of recount; supports return of team
The Independent High-Level Mission (from left): Ms Angela Taylor, Chief Electoral Officer, Barbados; Mr Anthony Boatswain, former Finance Minister, Grenada;...
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Guyana Court of Appeal rules that CARICOM-supervised recount is illegal
Justice of Appeal, Dawn Gregory. The Guyana Court of Appeal on Sunday ruled that the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) cannot...
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OPINION: I disagree with coalition’s commissioner recount statement; I separate from it
by GHK Lall Though I had warned to manage expectations, I still harbored faint hopes that norms would prevail, that...
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Business, religious, labour petition Inter-American Human Rights Commission to avert “political disaster” in Guyana
Twenty-five mainly private sector organisations have petitioned the United States (US)-based Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) to pressure Guyanese...
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Trinidad’s Prime Minister concerned about CARICOM headquarters in politically unstable Guyana
Flashback: President David Granger and Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, Keith Rowley briefing the media shortly after signing a...
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Recount does not mean automatic declaration of winner -GECOM Commissioner Alexander
Pro-coalition elections commissioners (l-r) Desmond Trotman, Vincent Alexander and Charles Corbin. Pro-coalition Elections Commissioner, Vincent Alexander on Friday said the...
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GECOM to put brake on recount after Court of Appeal decision on recount case
Justice of Appeal, Dawn Gregory. The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) will not activate plans for a recount of votes cast...
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