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…GECOM commissioner warns LONGSTANDING Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) Commissioner, Vincent Alexander, has warned that the electoral wrongdoings being unearthed during the ongoing recount process could impact the outcome of the March 2, 2020 elections. He told the media, on Monday, that whether the wrongdoings and discrepancies witnessed thus far do impact the results depend on […]

Guyana ChronicleMay 12, 2020 By Lisa HamiltonRelated–Election 2020 GUYANA Elections Commission (GECOM) Commissioner, Vincent Alexander, has stated that he will be advocating for the blacklisting of GECOM polling day officials who have failed to adhere to Elections regulations, resulting in various irregularities in ballot boxes. “Collateral to this exercise called a recount has to be […]

TODAY, the Chief Elections Officer (CEO), Keith Lowenfield, is expected to submit his revised operational plan for the national recount to the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM). The Elections Commission, chaired by Justice (Ret’d) Claudette Singh, had expected that the modified plan would have been tabled on Tuesday, however, the CEO sought further clarification. Nonetheless, the […]

…requests high-level team for recount exercise  By Svetlana Marshall CHAIRPERSON of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), Justice (Ret’d) Claudette Singh has written the Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Ambassador Irwin LaRocque to request the presence of and ascertain CARICOM’s willingness to have its high-level team return to Guyana during the execution of a National […]

Dear Editor ON March 22, 2020, the Guyana Court of Appeal (CoA) vetoed GECOM’s plan to execute the CARICOM pact to recount votes cast in the March 2, 2020 elections. The CoA held that the agreement, which was ratified by President David Granger, Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo and the CARICOM Secretary General, was unconstitutional. This […]

SECRETARY-GENERAL of the Commonwealth, Patricia Scotland, has urged the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) to adhere to the directions given by the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) to conclude Guyana’s elections so that the country can fully refocus on its governance.In a release on Sunday, she welcomed the July 9, 2020 statement from the Chairman of […]

GUYANA Elections Commission (GECOM) Commissioner, Vincent Alexander, has stated that, while all sorts of criticism have been levelled against the Commission in the past, the most recent, condemning Chief Elections Officer (CEO), Keith Lowenfield, for the 156-day proposal is “unfounded, ridiculous and malicious”. In a letter to the Editor, Alexander said that the mere fact […]

Dear Editor,THE length of time that it will take to recount the ballots in the 2020 General and Regional Elections is a direct result of the PPP’s proposal to have two commissioners (one APNU+AFC and one PPP/C) at every counting station. This proposal which the PPP/C made and then suddenly gets amnesia is the source […]

– maintains that it is not simply a numerical recount SINCE the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has undertaken to facilitate a national recount of votes cast in the March 2020 Elections, several proposals have come to the fore, but Commissioner Vincent Alexander believes that those which speak to timelines of 10 and 12 days are […]

DEAR EDITOR,IT is evident that following the unique impeachment of the President of the United States of America last year, the international world and Americans especially, now find themselves unable to decipher truth from reality. With new uncertainty about many of the terms these hegemonies personally coined and reportedly represented, they have now been taking […]