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Dear Editor,IN human history, when mistakes are made, we all look forward to opportunities, first to learn lessons and second to avoid making similar mis-steps in the future.I write this letter the day after the results of the recount have been published, but what does the recount and subsequent action mean for Guyana? The 2020 […]

THE African Cultural and Development Association (ACDA) has pointed out that the national recount, riddled with irregularities, puts the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) in the same position it was previously in when it could not make a final pronouncement on the elections due to a lack of transparency. In a release to the media on […]

CLOSE to three months after it was shelved, the contempt matter in the case Reeaz Holladar v. Returning Officer for Region 4 Clairmont Mingo and others, will be heard by Chief Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire on Thursday, June 11, 2020 at 11:00hrs, via Zoom.The contempt-of-court matter, which will be heard in the High Court, was filed […]

– Jagdeo admits more processes to follow– recount process still at stage 2 CELEBRATING victory at this stage of the national recount process is premature, and even the People’s Progressive Party/C Civic, which previously did such, has come to realise that the four stages of the process must be respected. The recount shows the PPP/C […]

AFTER months of verbal abuse, Opposition Leader, Bharrat Jagdeo, has now called on his supporters to stop attacking the character of the chairperson of the Guyana Elections Commission, Justice Claudette Singh. Both Jagdeo’s party and his supporters had been brutally critical of Justice Singh and have often referred to her in derogatory terms. Besides, Justice […]

Dear Editor,DESPITE the evident triumphalism of the PPP/C and its supporters, the only real news emerging from the recount exercise is that the 2020 elections were riddled with irregularities, which, in effect, amounts to fraud. As I have long speculated, the votes in the boxes are severely compromised by a widespread and systematic manipulation of […]

…says much more needed to promote racial harmony in Guyana Cognizant of the fact that Guyana remains a racially divided nation, the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU), in its quest to foster racial harmony, will be enhancing the work of its Race Relations Committee as it celebrates its 23rd Anniversary today. As in the case […]

-Henry Jeffrey rubbishes contention that allegations could only be ventilated via elections petition POLITICAL Analyst, Dr. Henry Jeffrey, said the allegations of electoral fraud, which surfaced during the national recount, ought to be thoroughly investigated by the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) ahead of the declaration of the results of the General and Regional Elections, as […]

THE Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) has distanced itself from remarks made by one of its Commissioners, Haji Dr. Roshan Khan on June 8, 2020 who spoke on the recount process as birthing “very credible” results. Khan had invited himself to the media tent set up outside the Arthur Chung Conference Centre (ACCC), where the national […]

Dear Editor,AS a citizen of Guyana watching the progress of our 2020 elections I am deeply concerned about the misinformation  permeating our society, threatening  the body politic of our nation but more specifically the credibility  and outcome of our 2020 elections.  Our nation has witnessed attack upon attack on the credibility of the Guyana Elections […]