Category: Guyana Chronicle

GECOM must now nullify elections currently overtaken by allegations of fraud – Lewis MARRED by widespread allegations of fraud, Guy­ana’s 2020 General and Regional Elections is be­yond repair, and therefore, cannot be salvaged, Veteran Trade Unionist Lincoln Lewis said as he joined calls for there to be no declaration of the results of the highly […]

Dear Editor,  DURING  election without cycle, APNU+AFC has without doubt been playing by the  rules. The rule book, foreign to many has been a permanent fixture in our armoury. We live and breathe the political  constitutional commandments Law abiding we are because being law abiding is intertwined in the double helix of our DNA. On […]

…Ramjattan says Lowenfield should sue for malicious prosecution WHEN the matter of the private criminal charges brought against him has made its passage through the Court, Chief Elections Officer (CEO), Keith Lowenfield, should bring a tort of malicious prosecution against those who took him to court without probable cause and with malicious intent. This is […]

Dear Editor,IT is with colossal alarm that I note the pernicious “private criminal charges” against a statutory officer of rectitude in the person of Mr. Keith Lowenfield. Such is his reward for acting in consonance with the Constitution of Guyana. Should this travesty and perversion of justice be allowed to proceed, the same would be […]

-say petition for her resignation unwarranted  THE Liberty and Justice Party (L.JP), The New Movement (TNM) and the United Republican Party (URP) have come out in support of Chair of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), Justice (Ret’d) Claudette Singh and against calls for her resignation.  Recently, a small group of Guyanese petitioned for Singh to […]

-AG males clear amid attempts by PPP/C’s lawyers ta mislead Appellate Court AN attempt by the People’s Progressive Party/ Civic (PPP/C) to mislead the Court of Appeal on the March 13 Declaration made by Region Four Returning Officer (RO) Clairmont Mingo was shut down by the Attorney-General, Basil \Villiams, who made it clear that that […]

WHILE some see government’s call for dialogue between itself and the main opposition as cunning, Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo gave a reminder on Sunday that such calls date back as far as 1977 and its delay at this critical juncture in Guyana’s history may very well lead to the country’s downfall. In his weekly newspaper […]

THE APNU+AFC has stated that it will not remain silent while authorities — local and abroad — ignore evidence of electoral fraud in Guyana’s elections and made known its calls, once again, on Sunday, for “valid votes” only, to determine the outcome of the elections. In a press release, the coalition party said that it […]

By Adam Harris FOR the second time in a year, I have seen moves to jail people for doing their work. And it is not as if the work for which the term of imprisonment is sought is limited to that person alone. The first instance that I recall involved Finance Minister, Winston Jordan. A […]

THIS past week, the APNU+AFC announced that it was prepared to enter into dialogue with any of the opposition political parties. This announcement , described as an “olive branch” by this publication, came against the background of concerns that the longer the impasse arising out of the March 2 elections continues, the more the stability […]