Tag Archives: Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM)

The seven-member Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) is now grappling with a call by opposition-nominated election commissioner, Charles Corbin for a judicial review of whether leader of The New Movement (TNM) Dr Asha Kissoon is properly a parliamentarian, another opposition commissioner Vincent Alexander said Tuesday night. Mr Alexander said himself and the third opposition-backed election commissioner, Desmond Trotman would join Mr ...

Britain’s Foreign Secretary, David Lammy is scheduled to arrive in Guyana on Thursday night for a three-day visit, Foreign Secretary Robert Persaud confirmed. He said Mr Lammy intends to explore providing British assistance to the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), through the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) for Guyana’s general elections likely to be held during the last quarter of 2025. ...

As opposition political parties press for The New Movement’s (TNM) Dr Asha Kissoon to be replaced because the Guyana Elections Commission’s (GECOM) Legal Officer, Kurt Da Silva said an error was made in selecting her, General Secretary of the governing People’s Progressive Party (PPP), Bharrat Jagdeo said he has no preference one way or another. “This is a matter entirely ...

Pressure on Wednesday mounted on the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) and House Speaker Manzoor Nadir to take immediate steps to remove The New Movement’s (TNM) Asha Kissoon from the National Assembly. A New and United Guyana (ANUG) political party issued the call now that the GECOM has admitted that it made a mistake about which of the three joinder parties ...

The Alliance For Change (AFC) on Sunday said it would hold consultations on whether to boycott next year’s general elections if Retired Justice Claudette Singh remains the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) Chairman, saying that she presided over the illegal occupation of a joinder parliamentary seat. “The AFC will commence by engaging national stakeholders on the issue and its potential impact ...

The chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), Justice (ret’d) Claudette Singh, denies any personal political bias in the face of growing opposition calls for her to resign because she allegedly votes with the three People’s Progressive Party (PPP)-aligned election commissioners. “There is an accusation that I’m always voting with the PPP. I make my own decision,” she told a ...

As the number of eligible voters is set to surpass the latest figure of 718,715 and further fuel opposition calls for a clean list and digitalised fingerprint registration and identification of electors at polling stations, Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) Claudette Singh on Friday said the commission needs to figure out whether it can introduce that biometric system. ...

General Secretary of the ruling People’s Progressive Party (PPP), Bharrat Jagdeo on Thursday said the opposition has embarked on a campaign to drive fear into voters about the importance of non-nationals to next year’s general and regional elections, but he rejected claims that his party was padding the voters’ list with foreigners’ names to secure victory. “We don’t need foreigners ...

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has reacted sharply to Leader of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) Aubrey Norton’s position that his party’s polling agents would block foreigners from voting in next year’s general elections. “Elections are managed by the Guyana Elections Commission and political party agents will have no authority to determine who votes or not. Once, a person’s ...

The governing People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) expects the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) will be ready by next July to hold general elections, party General Secretary Bharrat Jagdeo said Thursday. “GECOM has to be ready. They should have been ready by March 2nd because that’s when elections were held but I actually said August because that’s when the President was ...