Category: Guyana Chronicle

DEAR EDITOR,  MANY persons, including the inter­national community, are saying that the respective Returning Officers of the electoral districts, except District Four, bad verified their declared results by comparing their Statements of Poll with the copies of the respective political parties’ Statements of Poll. I wish to say categorically that this is untrue.  I am […]

LAST week I was full of confidence when I wrote that the APNU+AFC coalition was heading for a Triple Crown, having taken majority votes in two previous elections – 2011 and 2015.On March 2 everything seemed to have gone well, and everyone was hailing our national and regional elections as nothing but free and fair, […]

-PM Mottley says stakeholders must work together to achieve peaceful, lawful completion of electoral process AMDIST growing concerns and tension over the 2020 General and Regional Elections, Chairman of CARICOM, Prime Minister of Barbados, Mia Mottley, has said the community stands ready to facilitate dialogue between Guyana’s main political leaders and take other necessary actions […]

…Chief Justice to rule today on court’s jurisdiction to hear ongoing election matters …GECOM’s lawyer says challenge to declaration of results by opposition must come by way of elections petition By Svetlana Marshall Chief Justice, Roxane George-Wiltshire, will, today, rule whether the High Court has jurisdiction to hear an application intended to block the declaration […]

THE United Republican Party (URP) Leader and Presidential Candidate Dr. Vishnu Bandhu is calling on the two major political parties to put away the decades-long ‘winner-takes-all’ political tradition and establish a National-Front Government whereby shared governance will be the order of the day. Dr. Bandhu in a letter to the Editor in Chief of the […]

…urges PPP Presidential Candidate Irfaan Ali Presidential Candidate of the PPP/C Dr Irfaan Ali has said that the results of the recount confirmed what his party has been saying that the won the elections. Following the completion of the last ballot box on Sunday at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre (ACCC), supporters of the party […]

…Coalition says several other steps required before declaration THE recount process has uncovered evidence of massive electoral fraud affecting over 84,000 votes, the ruling APNU+AFC coalition said on Sunday as GECOM wrapped the month-long recounting of votes for the March 2, 2020 elections. “Tabulation is not Validation: once only valid votes are counted the coalition […]

Dear Editor,THE recent statement on the recount process by the Organisation of American States (OAS) that, “ A declaration based on these results would lead to the installation of a legitimate government” is that organization’s opinion. However, it is another clear demonstration that the OAS is not an impartial observer of the Guyana election process […]

THE last day of the national recount of the votes cast at the General and Regional Elections went no different from the days before, as more irregularities and grounds for considering the elections fraudulent, were detected. At the end of Sunday, several instances were disclosed to this publication. At Enmore/ Hope Primary School, ballot box […]

…important task of validating votes, study of observation report to begin THE Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), on Sunday completed the national recount of ballots cast at the 2020 General and Regional Elections with the tabulation process of said ballots likely to be completed today. Sunday saw the completion of recount of the remaining 74 ballot […]