Category: Guyana Chronicle

Dear Editor,Electoral fraud has been committed; the people Guyana know it; all those who colluded for it to happen, know it and the world also knows. Only the Commission, and, more specifically, the Chairman, Justice Claudette Singh can let Guyana and the “Will of the people” breathe. It is extremely difficult for any reasonable thinking […]

 Coalition ups pressure over electoral fraud claims  ..GECOM cannot sail calmly to end of recount while concerns go unanswered  By Svetlana Marshall  IN a stern statement on Saturday, the A Partnership for National Unity + Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) called on Guyanese to demand answers from the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) for the mountain of […]

Dear Editor:This is the legacy of Justice Claudette Singh SC CCH, the most consequential judge in the history of Guyana’s elections both at the judiciary and the administrative level of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM). Justice Singh may not have been accorded the honour of being appointed Chief Justice of Guyana even though she was […]

Dear Editor, AT this point in our tapestried history, Guyana may be facing the single most serious threat to our democratic credentials in our history. While Guyana has been under oligarchic, dictatorial rule before now, most recently during the reign of the PPP regime which was unceremoniously voted out of office by a disgusted populace […]

–Political scientist says enough anomalies uncovered to warrant thorough investigations THE irregularities uncovered thus far are enough to call into question the credibility of the Elections, Political Scientist, Dr David Hinds, said while indicating that the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), under the Constitution and Elections Law (Amendment) Act, has the authority to investigate the anomalies […]

WHAT is the connection between a bloated list, electoral fraud and the birth of a dictatorship? This question is best answered with a clear explanation of the dangers of an inflated voter roll, how it invites and facilitates voter fraud and how this is tied to the beginning of dictatorship. ELECTORAL FRAUD: PARTY AGENTS AND […]

alleges 24,095 votes affected by fraud UPON completion of the processing of Region Three ballot boxes at the national recount, the coalition agent who was assigned to that station, Ganesh Mahipaul, has said that voting in the region was far from credible.  Mahipaul based his position on the numerous anomalies that were unearthed in several […]

By Adam Harris  I SPENT my childhood in some of the best communities. I lived at La .Jalousie and Den Amstel, West Demerara, before I settled in the community of my birth, Beterver­wagting, East Coast Demerara. In each of these communities, I witnessed mam1y things.  I remember returning from a shop in Beterverwagting when a […]

GEC0M has announced that it intends to wrap up the ongoing recount sometime in mid, June. It is expected that once the recount is completed, the CEO would make a report to the full Commission, which would then make a final declaration. But until that time, GEC0M would have to address its mind to the […]

…recount in 6 regions completed With all of the ballots recounted from six of the 10 Electoral Districts, there remain 700 Ballot Boxes to be processed by the Elections Secretariat.On Saturday – Day 25 of the National Recount of the March 2 Votes – 84 ballot boxes were processed at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre […]