Category: Guyana Chronicle

THE United States has again threatened sanction for persons allegedly engaged in electoral fraud here, although not providing evidence of its claims. US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, made the comments during a news briefing on Tuesday. “The United States is closely monitoring the tabulation of votes in Guyana ….we join the OAS Commonwealth, EU, […]

Dear Editor,IT IS public knowledge that what has been described as a “total recount”, seemingly inspired, perhaps instigated, by CARICOM, of the votes cast in the ten (10) districts at the General and Regional Elections 2020 (GRE’s) is impending.Whatever semantic jargon be employed to cloak the Terms of Reference (TOR) that will guide the implementation […]

…Legal luminaries say proposed Terms of Reference unconstitutional…assert GECOM’s sole remit to supervise elections A NATIONAL recount of the votes cast during the March 2 General and Regional Elections under the supervision of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) would be a complete breach of the Constitution and the Electoral Laws of Guyana, legal luminaries are now […]

The High Court has granted an interim injunction blocking the national recount of ballots that should have started Tuesday evening at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre.The injunction, which was granted by Justice Franklin Holder in the High Court on Tuesday, was filed by a private citizen, Ulita Grace Moore, against GECOM; its Chair, Justice (Ret’d) […]

Chairman of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Mia Mottley said it deeply regretted that the community has been forced to withdraw the independent High Level Team it fielded on Saturday, 14 March 2020, to supervise the re-counting of the ballots in Region 4 of the General and Regional Elections of 2 March 2020 in Guyana. In […]

…President regrets CARICOM election initiative has been stalled “I AM deeply disappointed that the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Initiative, which was agreed upon following the intervention of the Prime Ministers of Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, St. Vincent and the Grenadines and Trinidad and Tobago, has stalled,” President David Granger said in reaction to a court injunction that […]

SUPPORTERS of the A Partnership for National Unity  + Alliance For Change political party, on Tuesday, converged in front of the Guyana Elections Commission offices in New Amsterdam, as well as on the West Coast Berbice, pressing for the swift declaration of the March 2, 2020 elections results. Coalition candidate, Mr. Jevaughn Stephen, told the […]

– warns that such a move would supersede electoral laws, infringe on rights of electors WARNING that an order intended to facilitate a recount of the ballots cast at the March 2 General and Regional Elections could have far-reaching implications, Guyana’s Chief Parliamentary Counsel, Charles Fung-a-Fatt, has advised the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) not to […]

…after court injunction blocks recounting process By Lisa Hamilton THE CARICOM High-Level Team which travelled to Guyana to supervise the re-counting of ballots from the country’s March 2, 2020 General and Regional Elections, on Tuesday withdrew themselves from the process. At 17:30hrs, the team pulled up at the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM)’s High and Cowan […]

Dear Editor,I AM deeply troubled by what appears to be an attempt to blatantly breach the laws of Guyana in an effort to ‘cure’ what appears to have been determined by public opinion, rather than a court of law, to have been breaches of the laws of Guyana. The Guyanese public was first made aware […]