…calls on observers to condemn acts MEMBERS of the African Guyanese community are appalled by the invasion of GECOM’s Media and Tabulation Centre by the leaders of the People’s Progressive Party on Thursday, the International Decade for People of African Descent Assembly – Guyana (IDPADA-G) said on Friday. “Their efforts to intimidate the staff have […]
Category: Guyana Chronicle
A call for peace, unity and good sense
The March 2, 2020 Regional and General Elections will go down in our history books as one of the most widely-reported and hotly contested. On March 2, electors took to the polls in what was described as free and fair elections by locals, officials and international observers. The day went off without any notable incidents […]
URP challenges the two major political parties to form a National-Front Government
Dear Editor, THE United Republican Party (URP) Leader, Dr. Vishnu Bandhu is calling on the two major political parties to put away the decades-long ‘winner-take-all’ political tradition, and establish a National-Front Government where Shared Governance will be the order of the day.Racial strife has destroyed our country, as it continues to destroy the world. How […]
‘Polls manipulated’
…President says electoral process was compromised…asserts role of Caricom scrutineers; CEO in preparation of recount, observation reports…again calls on Guyanese to await declaration by GECOM PRESIDENT David Granger, while maintaining that he will accept the results of the General and Regional Elections as declared by the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), said from all indication the […]
Many people took things for granted
By Adam HarrisMANY people take some things for granted. They see roads being built, or garbage being collected or transportation provided for their children to go to school and they take those things for granted.Prior to May 2015 Georgetown was a dump. People called it the Garbage City without a measure of disgust. They simply […]
GECOM must honour requirements of recount order
Another week and another mountain of evidence unearthed to bring to the attention of GECOM and Guyana the extent to which some went to steal the government of Guyana. Another week and another set of attempts by the PPP to bully its way to power by changing the rules it agreed to. Another week and […]
DROs refute PPP/C claims that POs were instructed to leave documents out of ballot boxes
THE discovery of 29 ballot boxes void of crucial statutory documents sparked a response from a Deputy Returning Officer (DRO), who contended that it was the instructions of the Region Four Returning Officer (RO) Clairmont Mingo to exclude the documents but this, other DROs have said, is far from the truth. “Please be informed that […]
‘Don’t allow our motherland to descend into darkness’
…Sir Shridath urges AS the national recount of votes cast at the March2, 2020 elections comes to a close, revered Guyanese Diplomat, Sir Shridath Ramphal, has urged citizens not to allow the country to slip into chaos. “As Guyana nears the tipping point of its ‘elections crisis’ I plead with all my fellow Guyanese not […]
Critical documents for 29 ballot boxes still missing
– DROs a ‘no-show’ at GECOM meeting – Commission decides to exclude SoRs from tabulation By Svetlana MarshallTHE Elections Secretariat has thus far reached a dead-end in its search for critical documents that were discovered missing when 29 ballot boxes from the East Coast of Demerara (ECD) were opened at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre; and […]
Credibility and integrity of the electoral process
Dear Editor, SINCE March 2, 2020, there has been much activity around the Recount Process. There are questions of its legality, and some see it as an act of commitment and good faith by His Excellency, President David Granger. The Recount Process was gazette, and all political parties were getting into gear; GECOM itself had […]