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by Zena Henry and Denis Chabrol The incumbent People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) and A Partnership for National Unity+ Alliance For Change coalition (APNU+ AFC) were Thursday on a collision course over the need for a total recount of all votes cast in the Monday, May 11 general and regional elections. Former President Bharrat Jagdeo said his PPPC would be ...

The Peoples Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) has already written the Returning Officers (ROs) of 9 of Guyana’s 10 electoral districts requesting a total recount of all ballots cast in those districts, with at least two of the ROs already turning down the requests.  The party announced today that owing to the revelation of fake statements of polls (SOs) discovered in ...

A Trinidad and Tobago national, who is wanted for killing two persons in his home country, was Thursday (May 14, 2015)  arrested in Guyana. Guyanese police said 50-year old Ralph Ramdhan, known as Vernon Rampersaud, is wanted for a double murder committed during 2014. He was arrested in cooperation with INTERPOL and through crime intelligence garnered. Police said “he was ...

by Zena Henry Apart from their refusal to accept defeat at the General and Regional Elections 2015, the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) does not see joining the A Partnership for National Unity +Alliance for Change (APNU+AFC) Coalition in a government of national unity as an option. President Donald Ramotar when asked about joining the Coalition’s unity train said that, “That ...

by Zena Henry and Denis Chabrol The People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) maintains that it has won the May 11, 2015 general and regional elections and from all indications is not ready to concede defeat, although preliminary results show that it has been defeated in the May 11 polls. Executive Committee member Gail Teixeira said her party preferred to await ...

The A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) + Alliance for Change (AFC) coalition has won the 2015 General and Regional Elections, according to the final preliminary results released by the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) on Thursday.  During a news conference held shortly after midday GECOM shared that after tallying the numbers from all 2,229 statements of polls (SOPs) from all ...

by Zena Henry The A Partnership for National Unity +Alliance for Change (APNU+AFC) has a slim lead over the People’s Progressive Party  Civic (PPPC) following the release of the second set of preliminary results of the 2015 General and Regional Elections.   Of the 1,809 Statements of Poll processed countrywide,  APNU+AFC won 157,347 votes over the PPPC with 157,304. The ...

GEORGETOWN, GUYANA — Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has urged Guyana’s election commission to release election results and called on political leaders to act responsibly. “I call on GECOM to urgently publicize all of the results that it has received and reviewed in Georgetown. Political leaders should act responsibly and allow GECOM to continue its work,” Carter said. “The law provides for ...

by Zena Henry and Chevy Devonish The A Partnership for National Unity+ Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) coalition hopes the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM will scrap a partial vote recount in several districts because of questions surrounding the legality of doing so. Demerara Waves Online News could not immediately confirm with senior GECOM officials whether they would give into the coalition’s ...

by Zena Henry and Chevy Devonish The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) Wednesday  afternoon began recounting votes in three districts, following bitter complaint by the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) about alleged skullduggery. GECOM Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Keith Lowenfield says GECOM is going ahead with the partial recounts of ballots in regions/districts 1, 2 and 8.   The CEO confirmed ...