…training for secretariat staff set for today THE Secretariat of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) is actively preparing for the highly anticipated National Recount, and today, it will up the tempo as it conducts a training session detailing the procedures that will be employed during the tabulation process. The Chief Elections Officer (CEO) Keith Lowenfield, […]
Category: Guyana Chronicle
Electoral fraud and rigging by the PPP/C
THERE is irrefutable evidence that the PPP/C assisted voter-fraud, including multiple voting and vote-buying in hinterland communities and coastal Guyana. Some of these areas include Toevlught/Patentia, Diamond, Mon Repos, Lancaster, Mahaica, Ann’s Grove and Parika. It appears as though the PPP/C had hoped to sabotage GECOM and claim collusion between GECOM and the incumbent coalition […]
Brian Tiwarie mulls legal action against Randy Deepoo, contacts lawyers
The inclusion of his name in a list prepared by Randy Deepoo for sanctions by the United States has incensed Chief Executive Officer of BK International, Brian Tiwarie.In two sections of the news media, on Tuesday, Deepoo, a Trinidad-based Guyanese reportedly filed a petition signed by more than 6,000 people with the United States Embassy […]
Breaking its own rules for high mischief and undemocratic ends
Dear EditorTO describe the conduct of the several International Elections Observer Mission teams, which had come to observe the March 02 national and regional elections, as professional, would be grossly misplaced, as well as undeserving. In fact, all the parties in this important category, both local and overseas, gathered for the March electoral exercise, sunk […]
PPP operative in FBI probe pulls bogus petition stunt at US Embassy
Dear EditorTHE Caribbean Guyana Institute for Democracy (CGID) has noted that a Guyanese citizen residing in Trinidad and Tobago by the name of Randy Depoo, performed a publicity stunt yesterday by presenting a so-called petition to the United States Embassy in Jamaica. Depoo’s fake petition calls for sanctions against named Guyana Government officials for purportedly […]
PPP and supporters making a mockery of everything
Dear Editor,BEFORE the March 2020 General and Regional Elections (GRE) in Guyana, the then leader of the opposition and now “illegal” opposition leader used to threaten our nation that if he and his party do not have their way at the GRE, he and his party supporters won’t take it lightly. He also mentioned on […]
POLITICAL SPITE
…Gayle sees Jagdeo’s hands in his exit from Tallawahs…the PPP leader had threatened to put him in his ‘bad books’ OPPOSITION Leader Bharrat Jagdeo has seemingly followed through on a threat made to Jamaican cricketer Chris Gayle to put him in his “*&%$# bad books” after the Cricketer revealed that his contract was not renewed […]
Masks should be changed every 30 minutes
…Health Ministry advises GECOM ahead of recount The Ministry of Public Health, through the National COVID-19 Task Force (NCTF), in its report to the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), recommended that persons involved in the national recount at the Arthur Chung Convention Centre (ACCC) should have their masks changed after every 30 to 60 minutes. Based […]
Who dem to condemn Mingo
Dear Editor, It is a Mount Everest type uphill task to get any level of understanding of those PPP dramatis personae, in their political nov11l of horror, deception and character assassination. It is for this reason that I have tried, for many moons I hasten to add, in desperate attempts at [Psychoanalysing their thought processes […]
The challenges for a second-term coalition government
Dear Editor THE two major parties persist in claiming election victory. Needless to say, the recount will identify the loser. Should the recount confirm a PPP defeat, the party has already activated the excuse that the process has been rigged. We can, therefore, expect various voices to chant eternally, “Cheated, not defeated.” On the other […]