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By Dr. Randy Persaud, Professor Emeritus We all love truth, but they are different kinds of truths. The truth most universally loved is moral and transcendental. We can call this truth in itself; it is spaceless and timeless. Then there is truth that is based on rationality. In this case, truth is based on cost-benefit analysis, on a logic of ...

By Dr. Randy Persaud, Professor Emeritus “…[T]here were, in fact, shockingly brazen attempts…to derail and corrupt the statutorily prescribed procedure for the counting, ascertaining and tabulation of votes of the March 2nd election…” (COI Report on the 2020 Guyana Elections). “[W]e must ask – on what grounds and by what form of executive fiat does the Chief Elections Officer determine ...

President David Granger Wednesday afternoon assured a visiting United States congressional delegation that the March 2 general and regional elections would be free and fair and that there would be no unrest. A government statement quoted the President as saying that the congressional team was assured that “there would be no disorder or lawlessness and could look forward to Guyana ...

The European Union (EU) , United Kingdom (UK) and the United States (US) on Saturday said after a “smooth and efficient” Nominations Day on Friday, it is now time for a hassle-free election campaign towards polling day on March 2, 2020. “We also urge all parties to promote and support a peaceful and mature election campaign – one where everyone, ...

The United States, United Kingdom and the European Union on Friday said they were ready to support Guyana in having free and fair general elections. “It is now essential to ensure free and fair elections which we are pleased to support with elections assistance and monitoring along with other colleagues in the international community,” their top diplomatic envoys said in ...

Chief Election Officer, Keith Lowenfield on Tuesday said he would have to conduct an exercise to determine if the voters’ list and, if refreshed, could be used to conduct a free and fair election. “That’s correct. Always has and always will,” he told reporters when asked if the list, if refreshed, could be used to conduct a free and fair ...

The Working People’s Alliance (WPA)—a vocal partner in the governing coalition—on Sunday urged President David Granger and Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo to hammer out an agreement to clean up the voters’ list by either house-to-house registration or a claims and objections period. WPA executive member, Professor David Hinds told Demerara Waves Online News that while he was not optimistic that ...

As the Working People’s Alliance (WPA) observes the 39th assassination anniversary of its co-leader, Dr. Walter Rodney, that party vowed that it would not be part of any plot to rig the upcoming general elections and that it knows of no such plans to do so. “As we enter the electoral season and the political anxieties that come with it, ...

General Secretary of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP), Bharrat Jagdeo on Wednesday defended his party’s decision to hire a United States (US) public relations lobbying firm, Mercury Public Affairs, for $34 million to make out a solid case for free and fair elections in Guyana, saying that he was not concerned at all about its blemishes. “All the PPP wants ...

Newly-appointed United States (US) Ambassador to Guyana, Sarah-Ann Lynch on Wednesday said the US would back free and fair general and regional elections. “Moving forward, we will continue to encourage genuinely free and fair elections, freedom of speech and assembly, multiparty representation and a constitutional judiciary process,” she said immediately after presenting her credentials to President David Granger. Ambassador Lynch’s ...