Category: Guyana Chronicle

THE recent utterances on Guyana’s elections and, by extension, its internal affairs by Barbadian Prime Minister, Mia Mottley, and Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves of St. Vincent and the Grenadines are a cause for concern not only in Guyana, but in the rest of the CARICOM sub-region. Ms. Mottley’s video statement on Wednesday went to places […]

… Gov’t commissioners disappointed with GECOM Chair’s ruling on declarations THE landmark decision by the Chair of the Guy­ana Elections Commission (CECOM), Justice (Ret’d) Claudette Singh to have the Chief Elections Officer (CEO), Keith Lowenfield, prepare a report for the declaration of the results for the 2020 General and Regional Elections, using data from the […]

Dear EditorA CAREFUL examination of the “Report of the CARICOM observer team for the recount of the Guyana March 2, 2020 elections” has raised a number of important concerns about the structure, process, and the outcome of the analysis described in the 132-page document.First, it is unclear whether the team’s categorical observation, that their report […]

… US congresswoman calls on international actors to stop interfering in GECOM process…urges greater respect for Guyana’s sovereignty UNITED States Congresswoman Yvette Clarke (D-NY), Co-chair of the Caribbean Cacus in the US House of Representatives, in blistering comments on Monday night, condemned foreign interference in Guyana’s elections process. The Congresswoman said she has been monitoring […]

– Harmon says as PPP/C lauds GECOM’s decision, urging speedy declaration of results NO Government could be declared the winner of Guyana’s General and Regional Elections based on fraudulent votes, Campaign Manager of the A Partnership for National Unity + Alliance for Change (APNU+AFC), Joseph Harmon has said. His comments were in direct response to […]

Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) Justice (rt’d) Claudette Singh has officially written Chief Elections Officer Keith Lowenfield  ordering him to prepare his elections report to the Commission by 13:00h Thursday. According to the terse letter to Lowenfield, Justice Singh said the CEO has to submit the report using the results of the national […]

Dear editor, As a kid, I read the story of an elderly man, bis son and a donkey. The story described the situation where the elderly man, his son and said donkey were happily sauntering along when they came upon some passersby. The passersby, on seeing the elderly man walking in the presence of a […]

GUYANA’s Chief Election Officer (CEO), Keith Lowenfield, has been ordered to prepare a report in keeping with Section 96 of the Representation of the Act, Chapter 1:03 – a move that effectively paves the way for the official declaration of the Election results by the Chair of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), Justice (Ret’d) Claudette […]

Dear Editor,IN the 2020 General and Regional Elections, judicial, political, regulatory mistakes of portentous historic ramifications have been made. Our deeply entrenched democratic sovereignty has been unwittingly subverted, impaired, diluted and watered down. And the constitutional imperative of presidency, only by VALID VOTES, seems poised to become presidency by fraud, aided and abetted by non-commonsensical, […]

THE Carter Center has commended the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) on its progress in the recount process and has welcomed the report of the CARICOM Team which stated that the flaws observed in the process were not enough to prevent a declaration. In a release on Tuesday, the center stated: “Although the center is disappointed […]