Category: Guyana Chronicle

IN its report on the national recount, the CARICOM Scrutinising Team used the opportunity to urge that the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) immediately pursue reforms which will no longer make it “a creature of political parties”. The CARICOM report, submitted on Monday, was highly critical of many of the actions of the commission which the […]

Dear Editor,AS the nation continues the recount process, it is shocking to see how representatives of GECOM continue to be attacked by forces sympathetic to the PPP/C. Even the Chairperson, Retired Justice Claudette Singh has not been spared the vitriolic attacks. It indeed seems to be open season for the likes of Roy Beepat, Christopher […]

… Alexander says CAR/COM observers not privy to records that confirmed electoral fraud … deems their report ‘a basic electoral report’ ELECTIONS Commission Vincent Alexander, though not dismissing tbt Observation Report compiled by the: Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Observation Team, said it failed to take into full consideration the impact voter impersonation would have on the […]

 Dear EditorJUNE 16, 2020, marks the 72nd anniversary of the shooting to death of five sugar workers at Enmore, East Coast Demerara in 1948. The five – Rambarran, Pooran, Lallabagee, Surajballi, and Harry – are national martyrs whose lives were snuffed out during the struggle by sugar workers for better working and living conditions and […]

…GECOM agrees to deliberate on observation reports despite PPP/C’s objections…commission to continue review of CEO’s report today By Svetlana Marshall AN attempt to shelve the Chief Elections Officer’s (CEO’s) Observation Reports, which emanated out of the National Recount, was met with objection at the level of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) on the basis that […]

SECRETARY-GENERAL of the Commonwealth Patricia Scotland has said that she welcomes the report of the CARICOM Scrutinising Team for the recount of Guyana’s March 2, 2020 elections and commended them for their brave and selfless service. “The CARICOM Observer report is clear that the recount results are completely acceptable and that nothing that the CARICOM […]

…but concludes that elections results should be declared THOUGH acknowledging that it only scrutinised 18% of the ballots counted during the recount process, the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Observation Team, in its report to the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), said the 2020 General and Regional Elections were not without defects, but it will not thwart the […]

MAKING a case for electoral reform in Guyana, the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Observation Team said, at a minimum, a new National Register of Registrant Database (NRRDB) should be generated. “As a minimum condition of electoral reform, the Team recommends that the urgent need for the total re-registration of all voters in Guyana,” the three-member observer […]

…AG defends Lowenfield’s report…says CEO executed duties in conformity with provisions of gazetted order THE contents of the Chief Elections Officer’s (CEO’s) report on the national recount have been making the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) uneasy, having already proclaimed that it won the 2020 Elections based on the numerical count of the votes. But […]

—President says opposition applied sly tactics to alter elections outcome—that bloated OLE was backbone for electoral wrongdoings WITH the report of Chief Elections Officer (CEO) Keith Lowenfield indicating that the elections were riddled with illegalities and anomalies, President David Granger said that his party has taken note of the “flaking off” strategy applied by the […]