Elections

The opposition A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) on Friday asked the High Court to block the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) from using the existing voters list for the March 13 Local Government Elections on the grounds that it was extracted from the list for general and regional elections, and does not take consider residency of electors. “A ...

Attorney General Anil Nandlall says the Chief Immigration Officer and the Commissioner of Registration of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) cannot collaborate to remove the names of non-resident Guyanese from the national database of registrants. “He fails to appreciate that insofar as that Regulation authorises the removal of names from the National Register of Registrants (NRR) on the basis of ...

Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton on Tuesday discarded British High Commissioner Jane Miller’s view that the existing voters list could be used with current safeguards, but conceded that the opposition coalition of A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) would only endorse positions that are in its interest. He said the British High Commissioner Jane Miller “must not be allowed ...

The Guyana Election Commission (GECOM) never provided information about the voters list to United Kingdom High Commissioner Jane Miller who has said the existing roll can be used with safeguards at polling stations, opposition coalition Election Commissioner Vincent Alexander said at the weekend. “Not to my knowledge. There has been no such interaction…I was asking myself who told her and ...

As the opposition A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) continues to hint at the possibility of legal action to address their concern about a bloated voters list and the Guyana Elections Commission’s failure to ensure electors reside where they are registered, one of their Election Commissioners on Sunday pointed to several possible grounds for returning to court. Opposition ...

The United Kingdom on Saturday said Guyana’s voters list was being updated and could be used to hold general elections with sufficient safeguards in place and she said based on existing rules Guyanese who are overseas could not be taken off the national database of registrants. “Anywhere in the world you got to make sure your voters list is regularly ...

The Guyana Elections Commission’s (GECOM) Chief Security Officer Ronald Stuart on Wednesday said after then Deputy Chief Election Officer Roxane Myers failed in her effort to get him to order several persons to vacate the tabulation room to allow Region Four Returning Officer Clairmont Mingo to do his work, a bomb hoax was called. “She said they were interfering with ...

Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and Governance Gail Teixeira on Monday dismissed Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton’s persistent concerns about a bloated voters list, saying that he is using a 10-year old low national census figure to make a comparison and the opposition has so far failed to propose any amendments to the electoral laws to provide for use of biometrics at ...

Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton’s effort to seek parliamentary approval a motion for constitutional and legal amendments to allow for a clean voters list was Monday turned down by House Speaker Manzoor Nadir. “For a matter to qualify under this particular item, the issue of definite, urgent public importance are necessary and it’s an issue that also that’s upcoming and I ...

Former ‘A’ Division Commander Assistant Police Commissioner Edgar Thomas on Friday confessed to disobeying orders by then Police Commissioner Leslie James for him and others to leave the District Four Returning Office at Ashmin’s Building on the basis that Statements of Poll needed to be protected. Mr Thomas said he received several calls from Mr James who was insisting that ...