Category: Guyana Chronicle

…APNU+AFC tells GECOM as it maintains that persons voted on behalf of the dead  Commissioner Trotman to lobby full commission to investigate grave irregularities By Svetlana Marshall  IN a high-level meeting with the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) on Saturday the A Partnership for National Unity + Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) said it has all the […]

AS you may have observed by now, the attention of the nation has been gripped by the national recount stemming from the March 2nd regional and national elections. At this juncture, it has become apparent that the process has discovered troubling anomalies and irregularities that border on criminal negligence, which point to a criminal scheme […]

…AG says By Gabriella Chapman THE Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs, Basil Williams SC, has said that the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) gerrymandered the March 2 elections, and given the purpose and what the national recount process entails, all the unscrupulous acts of the opposition will be revealed. Speaking with the media […]

…former MPs ignore COVID-19 measures LED by former Opposition Members of Parliament, Priya Manickchand and Jennifer Westford, a protest action by the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) outside the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in direct violation of COVID-19 measures, was dismantled by the police on Saturday. Reports are that the group of protestors gathered outside the […]

By Adam HarrisNO ship in the roughest of seas has ever been buffeted like the Guyana Elections Commission has been in recent weeks. And for sure, no member of the commission has ever been as vilified as Chairperson Claudette Singh. Such has been the attacks that some persons would have packed up and left. That […]

Dear Editor,A few days ago, I watched Mr. Enrico Woolford’s interview with the Canadian High Commissioner, Ms. Lilian Chatterjee.  This interview was aired on national television for all the world to see and hear. Ms. Chatterjee’s posture throughout the interview leaves much to be desired. Her comments raise questions as to whether she has a full […]

Dear Editor“If you don’t want to answer leave’’, is read as an ultimatum that had been given to Leader of the political opposition, Bharat Jagdeo, after he was reported to have behaved in a disrespectful manner to a member of the media corps that is currently gathered at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre, covering the […]

…GECOM releases decisions on basket of issues AT the end day 11 of the national recount, the Guyana Elections Commission announced that it has completed another 49 ballot boxes, taking the total number to 528.Of the 528 completed boxes, the tabulation for the General Elections was completed for 500, and for Regional, 501, at the […]

Dear Editor,THE ongoing recount process at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre has been couched as a battle between the incumbent APNU-AFC coalition, and the opposition PPP-Civic coalition. Third parties have been framed as either guardians of the democratic will of the majority looking for change, or agent provocateurs of the opposition, depending on the point […]

ON May 11, 2015, when citizens went to the polls, were attention paid to their voices over the years, it would have been recognised that their ballot was a loud expression that they wanted a change, not merely in persons or group, but the manner in which governance is conducted. The APNU+AFC won the people’s […]