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GRA suspends processing drivers, vehicle licences; pushes back tax payments to curb COVID-19 spread
The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) on Wednesday announced that it would not be renewing or issuing first-time drivers and conductor...
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CARICOM team pulls out; PPP will deem APNU+AFC govt “illegal and illegitimate”, agitates for international sanctions
President David Granger (left) and Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretary General, Irwin LaRocque. The opposition People's Progressive Party (PPP) on Tuesday...
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High Court blocks CARICOM-supervised recount of Guyana’s general election votes
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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Granger deems PPP election results bogus, appeals for calm
David Granger Guyana's caretaker President David Granger on Monday suggested that the main opposition's claims that it won the March...
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GECOM Chairman turns down PPP vote verification requests because issue before court
Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), Retired Justice Claudette Singh has refused requests by the People’s Progressive Party for...
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High Court says can hear case against GECOM; agrees elections report must be scrapped
Chief Justice, Roxane George-Wiltshire on Sunday ruled that the High Court has jurisdiction to hear related cases involving several now...
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GECOM says will abide by laws, procedures
Even as the European Union (EU) said the electoral situation in Guyana has taken a "serious turn", the Guyana Elections...
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High Court will Sunday make important ruling concerning election results case
Senior Counsel Douglas Mendes Chief Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire will at 1:30 Sunday afternoon rule on whether she has jurisdiction to...
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Chief Justice promises swift hearing of High Court orders for GECOM to verify votes before declaring results
Chief Justice, Roxane George-Wiltshire on Saturday, in an emergency High Court hearing, promised to swiftly consider a request by the...
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Legal showdown looms over whether GECOM legally required to verify votes
Attorneys-at-law Anil Nandlall, Sanjeev Datadin and Roysdale Forde. Lawyers for A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) are Saturday...
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