Category: Guyana Chronicle

GTUC flays observers, inl’I community for ‘meddling’ in Guyana’s affairs

….says these bodies have shown contempt tor CJ’s ruling and GECOM THE Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) said it is deeply concerned by the statement made by Mr. Alexander Matus, Deputy Head of the European Union (EU) Observers Mission, de­manding that District Four Returning Officer of the Guyana Elections Com­mission (GECOM), band over legal documents […]

Coalition heads to victory

…as Region Four votes finally declared After more than a week of confrontations and legal actions, the votes for District Four for the General and Regional Elections were finally declared by the Returning Officer, Clairmont Mingo on Friday night, amid heavy police presence at the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) High Street, Kingston Headquarters. According to […]

Chief Justice urges display of SOPs during tabulation of Region Four votes

CHIEF Justice (ag) Roxane George-Wiltshire, on Friday, said the Returning Officer for Region Four, Clairmont Mingo, must produce the statements of poll (SOPs) during the tabulation of votes for his electoral district, as she offered greater clarity to her March 11 judgment. “The statement of poll has to be shown,” Justice George-Wiltshire said. At the […]

Beware the Ides of March

Dear Editor,This letter is being dictated in the midst of uncertainty as we await the results of our 2020 elections. It is also written as we approach the proverbial ‘Ides of March.’This was a time in the Roman calendar that the Mighty Julius Caesar ignored warnings to stay indoors. He ventured out and this led […]

APNU+AFC alarmed by OAS statement

…questions objectivity of Bruce Golding The APNU+AFC Coalition said it has taken note of the statement issued on Friday by the Organization of American States Observer Mission to Guyana and that it is alarmed by the missive. “The APNU+AFC is alarmed by what purports to be a wholly partisan statement which fails to take into […]

African Guyanese reject the recolonisation of Guyana under claims of upholding democracy

Dear Editor,The interventionalist stand taken by elements of the diplomatic community and some foreign observers that is preventing GECOM from completing its work is an attempt at controlling the electoral process of an independent country, the subversion of Guyana’s judicial process and undermining its democracy. We African Guyanese reject the dictates of our former colonial […]