Category: Guyana Chronicle

– long before the CARICOM team arrived DEAR High-Level CARICOM Team,Welcome to Guyana Please proceed to make yourselves useful in our dear land; try not to forget that one of the staunchest and most brilliant founding members of your organisation was Guyana’s President L. F. S. Burnham. The remnants of the party he once led […]

Dear Editor,Dr. Kirk Meighoo’s October 18, 2019 article in the Indo-Caribbean Diaspora News – icdn, using his statistical analysis — Turkeyn Research and Polling Institute (TRPI) and putting his professional reputation on the line, states that Irfaan Ali is the only PPP/C candidate who could not defeat President Granger in a general election. Getting this information, Dr. Ali could have increased […]

ON the night of Wednesday, March4, 2020, nothing could have prepared the Guyana Elections Commission for the events that would soon transpire; events that would completely derail an elections process that was deemed “free”, “fair” and “smooth” by electors, officials and observers up until that point. On the night of Wednesday, March 4, and on […]

– modalities still being worked out– police, PPP activists clash By Lisa Hamilton THE commencement of the recount of ballots cast in the General and Regional Elections from the ten administrative Regions did not commence as planned on Monday. Plans began relatively smooth on Monday morning when the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) conducted a walkabout […]

THE Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) has commended President David Granger and Leader of the Opposition, Bharrat Jagdeo, for finding common ground on a way forward for a national recount of ballots cast in the General and Regional Elections. The Commission has also lauded CARICOM for its role in overseeing the process and is optimistic that […]

SECRETARY-GENERAL of the Commonwealth, Patricia Scotland, has applauded the joint collaboration of Guyana’s main political leaders and the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) to conduct a national recount of ballots of the recently concluded General and Regional Elections. Scotland said, in a release on Monday, that she had initially expressed “deep concern” about the tabulation of […]

Dear Editor,  YOU have to remember that when foreign powers want you to act and think in a crrtain way that would bring justification to an action that they are already planning to make; they must make the person the bate, a villain. Civil war is bloodiest of all wars, because yon are fighting against […]

NOTWITHSTANDING a 13.3 per cent increase in the number of eligible voters, overall voter turnout here in Guyana has remained relatively stable, as the 72.5 per cent recorded for the March 2, 2020 General and Regional Elections has proven.The percentage at reference represents a marginal increase from the 71.3 per cent turnout recorded for the […]

– Region 4 recount tops agenda– GECOM, CARICOM agree on ToR TODAY, the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) will begin a recount of all ballots cast in the General and Regional Elections from the 10 administrative regions, having crafted a Terms of Reference (ToR) document which will guide the way forward. The ToR coincides with the […]

HE Organisation of American States (OAS) has welcomed the move by the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) to deploy a high-level mission to Guyana to oversee the recounting of the ballots cast in the General and Regional Elections. The decision came after President David Granger and the Leader of the Opposition agreed to have CARICOM field an […]