Category: Guyana Chronicle

THE long-awaited results for the General and Regional Elections are likely to be declared in June, days after the completion of the National Recount, which has been extended to June 13, based on an amended order issued by the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM).The Addendum to the Order, signed by the Chair of GECOM, Justice (Ret’d) […]

Dear Editor,WE cannot continue with the normal system of governance if it is the problem. This winner-take-all system of governance seems to be the underlying cause of the current political impasse. We are at that juncture in our history where neither of the two major races desires or intends to be governed by the other; […]

Dear EditorREFERENCE is made to Kaieteur News’ article “Coalition’s dead voter claim…Family says it never approved access to death certificate” (May 27, 2020). Undoubtedly, the article sought to present a picture that the alleged death certificate of Chitnandani Ramdass purportedly used by the APNU+AFC as evidence of the dead voting was unauthorised by the deceased […]

APNU+AFC slams PPP/C for misinforming public … there are clear legal provisions for anyone to access death certificates ARMED with the Law, the A Partnership for National Unity + Alliance for Change (APNU+AFC) slammed the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) over what it described as a blatant attempt to misinform and mislead the public on the […]

…PPP commissioners request time to consider proposal AT a meeting of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) on Wednesday it was proposed that the deadline for completion of the national recount be extended for another 17 days, the Guyana Chronicle has been reliably informed. Initially, the elections commission headed by Justice (Ret’d) Claudette Singh had set […]

Dear Editor,I READ Mr. Christopher Ram’s letter condemning Justice Claudette Singh and the pace of the national recount at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre (ACCC). I would not want to accuse Mr. Ram of being a busy body, looking for another fight to pick that he knows he cannot win; neither would I want to […]

SINCE March 2, the debate over power-sharing or shared governance as an alternative form of governance for Guyana has been raised anew. President Granger recently weighed in on the issue by once again committing his six-party coalition to this alternative form of governance: “By formula — as has been laid out by my colleague Rupert […]

Dear Editor, WALTER Rodney, even though hr was never elected to any office, remains a beacon that still lights tbt way for us who still have a conscience, a sense of right and wrong and the courage to speak the truth. I was elated when Rodney’s voice, the beacon of truth, was kept alive by […]

IN Sunday’s edition of this publication, we reported the APNU+AFC coalition as claiming that 86, 367 votes have been compromised thus far in the ongoing recount. The Coalition plans to present this data to GECOM, in keeping with a request made by the Commission’s Chair, Justice Claudette Singh. Justice Singh was at the time responding […]

Dear Sir, I was watching the televised recount of the General and regional elections. As i looked at the zeros piling up for the other looked at the zeros piling up for the other parties, l wondered about that. Did that actually pay to be part of this process? ana did they actually expect to […]