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ASSISTANT Elections Agent for Re­gion Three, ,John Adams, on Tuesday, confirmed th.at the verification of votes in that region has been completed and declared by the Region’s Returning Officer, Mobanlall Jagdeo, where au approximately 67 per cent voter turn­out is said to have been recorded.  Adams, at the time, could not say what the results […]

WEDNESDAY’S recount of the votes cast at the General and Regional Elections, saw 86 ballots from a single Polling Station in Sophia, Georgetown being deemed rejected – 83 from the General Elections and three (3) for the Regional Elections. The records show that on March 2, 2020, 184 electors from a list of 256 turned […]

Dear EditorSOME forty years ago as a student of law at UWI, I bought one of Lord Denning’s literary master pieces. It is titled “The Discipline of Law.” At page 26, there is a strange sub-heading- “unusual common sense”. That great jurist with accustomed erudition elucidates why to be truly right might require that you […]

…contends that any results from elections cannot be considered credible because of the high incidence of fraud…Werk-en-Rust man tells GECOM he was out but listed as voted DESPITE attempts to discredit a list of names provided to the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) by the Guyana Police Force Immigration Department, one person has thus far stepped […]

… Regions 6, 10 to be completed today By Svetlana Marshall  TODAY, the two remaining ballot boxes from Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne) and Region 10 (Upper Demerara-Berbice) will be completed, paving the way for all 12 workstations at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre (ACCC) to be assigned to Region Four (Demerara-Mahaica) as the completion of […]

— UN’s Mikiko Tanaka urges Guyanese as they await elections results Resident Coordinator of the United Nations in Guyana, Ms. Mikiko Tanaka has urged political leaders to help keep the peace and wait the decision of the Caribbean Court of Justice on the March 2, 2020 elections. “As the ruling of the Caribbean Court of […]

(BARBADOS TODAY) – A Barbadian citizen with family in Guyana has questioned how his name ended up on the voters’ list in Georgetown, even though he has never been registered there to vote. The development comes as the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) nation continues to attract international criticism over its election process, and the struggle to […]

POLLS in the Region Eight district of Madhia closed promptly at 18:00 hrs, dropping the curtain on a smooth day of voting. Voting at the Mahdia primary and secondary schools as well as the Campbell Town polling station got off to an early start with most of the voting done before 10:00hrs.Reginald Sinclair, a teacher […]

…as thousands cast ballots in Region three JUST over 100,000 voters were scheduled to vote in the Essequibo Islands-West Demerara Region at Monday’s elections, an increase of 16, 240 voters from the 2015 polls when the region recorded a 73.5 per cent voter turnout. Of the 13 parties contesting in the elections across the country, […]

In Georgetown, there was a massive showing of voters during Monday’s General and Regional Elections, with the elderly and persons with disability beating the odds to exercise their franchise. In Region Four (Demerara-Mahaica), 285,618 electors were expected to vote at 879 polling stations – the majority were drawn from Georgetown – the town’s capital city.At […]