Politics

As the Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) prepares to decide later Tuesday afternoon whether to use the recount tabulation and the observation reports to declare  results of the March 2, 2020 elections or ask that fresh elections be held, the Guyana government announced that new COVID-19 emergency measures  will be announced on Wednesday. “Kindly note that the current ...

The Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), Retired Justice Claudette Singh is Tuesday afternoon at about 3:30 PM expected to decide whether to instruct Chief Elections Officer, Keith Lowenfield  to use the recount data to compile a report for declaration of the long-awaited results of the March 2, 2020 general and regional elections, Elections Commissioner Charles Corbin said. His colleague, ...

Pro-coalition Elections Commissioner, Vincent Alexander on Monday sought to discredit the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) national vote recount report, while suggesting that the Elections Commission (GECOM) might make a “pronouncement” on the March 2, 2020 elections by weekend. “The CARICOM report is a basic electoral report. I don’t think the CARICOM people were disposed to or had access to the death ...

The Organisation of American States (OAS) on Monday called on the Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) to declare the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) the winner of the March 2, 2020 general and regional elections in line with Caribbean Community (CARICOM) scrutinised recount and the tabulated  results in the Chief Elections Officer’s report. “OAS further takes note and ...

The three-member Caribbean Community (CARICOM) team of scrutineers of the just concluded  national vote recount is recommending that the next government conducts a “political audit” of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) and a fresh registration of all voters. “A political audit of GECOM (its successes and failing and the factors contributing to this) both the commission and its administrative arm, ...

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) team that scrutinised the recount of the more than 460,000 valid votes cast says the March 2, 2020 general and regional elections reflected the choice of the electorate in who should run the affairs of Guyana for the next five years. “Overall, while we acknowledge that there were some defects in the recount of the March ...

Even as President David Granger said the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) would possibly scrap the March 2, 2020 general and regional elections due to massive electoral fraud, A New and United Guyana (ANUG) has reiterated that that is not constitutionally possible. Granger– who backed the Chief Elections Officer Keith Lowenfield’s initial report that says the number of votes that are ...

The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) on Sunday ruled out returning to Parliament to  approve funds for government spending if the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) invalidates the March  2, 2020 general and regional elections. “For the avoidance of doubt, the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) wishes to make it abundantly clear that it will never return to Parliament or support the convening ...

President David Granger on Sunday slammed Incoming Chairman of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), St. Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves for his disrespectful remarks that he should have taken his electoral defeat at the March 2, 2020 polls quietly. “Certainly, as the Head of State, I am not going to accept that kind of language. CARICOM, as ...

President David Granger on Sunday hinted that a state of emergency would have to declared to pave the way for the reconvening of a Parliament and the approval of funds for government spending, if the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) scraps the March 2, 2020 general and elections. “It is possible…I know it has been done before. It is not an ...