Dear EditorGUYANESE from all walks of life, at home at abroad, members and supporters of all political parties, even the apolitical welcomed the national recount agreement between His Excellency President David A. Granger and Leader of the Opposition Bharrat Jagdeo. I rather suspect too that after CARICOM was invited to ìsuperviseî and to be signatory […]
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Let’s resort to the final report
Dear Editor,THE Chairperson of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has finally made her electronically communicated decision for a recount of the March 2, 2020 declared election results, using no more than 10 workstations. However, a starting date for the proposed recount was not yet provided. As suspected and anticipated, the PPP and its aligned and […]
Bruce Golding’s credibility was destroyed in the Dudus Coke fiasco
Dear Editor,A JAMAICAN politician has labelled head of the Organization American States (OAS) observer mission to Guyana, former Jamaica Prime Minister Bruce Golding, ìa panhandler with no decency or integrity who will sell his mother for a small change. The former Jamaican Member of Parliament was at the time reacting to criticism Golding has received […]
‘What constitutional abyss!’
– AG raps Bar Council’s doomsday prediction about Guyana’s future if Parliament not convened by April 30 By Svetlana Marshall ATTORNEY-General and Minister of Legal Affairs Basil Williams insists that Article 69 of the Constitution is more directory rather than mandatory, as has been established by the Court of Appeal back in 2006. He made […]
The OAS is completely out of line
– GECOM and its staff must be respected! Dear Editor,THE Organisation of American States (OAS) has blatantly overstepped its boundary!The OAS seems to have become an additional mouthpiece of the PPP! This organisation that is supposed to be apolitical has decided that it will openly align itself with the PPP, and echo the sentiments of […]
OP-ED | The Mother of all Elections has attracted the Father of all Protests
By Adam HarrisFINANCE MINISTER, Winston Jordan, at a press conference, described the March 2, 2020 elections as the Mother of all Elections. He was not wrong. In fact, his comments were echoed many times after. The elections were predicted to be the Mother of all Elections because Guyana was developing an oil economy. Money was […]
Small parties want more workstations for recount
Our Editor, THE new political parties that confuted the March 2, 2020 general and regional elections art deeply disappointed at the decision of tbt Chair of GECOM, Justice (ret’d) Claudette Singh, who derided that only ten ( IO) stations should be established for recounting the votes of the ten regions, as has been derided by […]
Regardless of how we got into the ‘mess’, the challenge is for us to get out
Dear Editor,I REFER to Mr. Kowlasar Misir’s letter published in the April15, 2020 edition of the Stabroek News, under the caption, “It was Mr. Lowenfield, Mr. Mingo and others from GECOM who birthed us this mess”. He was responding to my letter SA (2020.04.14) in which I called for an apology from critics and letter […]
No more state alignment with immorality and illegality
GUYANA’s politics is fractured along the lines of ethnicity, a phenomenon which existed before independence but accentuated since independence as Guyanese fight for control of the state apparatus. In the recent years of the PPP’s Administration, its executive office holders were least concerned about maintaining wider public trust. This was a direct result of a […]
I believe that Granger is acting the role of a true Statesman
Dear Editor,THIS week, we note with interest through Facebook and other media, concerns expressed about the leadership of the ‘Coalition’ and, in particular, the leadership of David Granger.No doubt, this concern may be the results of the fulminations and hype consequent to the ‘fak’e news generated by the well-funded and well-oiled Mercury propaganda outfit. One […]