Category: Guyana Chronicle

CHAIRMAN of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), Justice (Ret’d) Claudette Singh, through her legal counsel, Kim Kyte-Thomas, said with or without the Aide Memoire, the Elections Commission, under the Constitution, has the power to order a national recount of all the votes cast at the March 2 General and Regional Elections if it is found […]

…PPP files appeal By Svetlana Marshall HIGH Court Judge, Franklin Holder, in refusing to stay the proceedings of the case brought by Ulita Moore to block a National Recount, took stock of the fact that weeks after the general and regional elections were conducted, the results have not been declared by the Guyana Elections Commission […]

EVENTUALLY, it had to be said—we are a sovereign country. We refer here to a statement from the government via the Ministry of Foreign Affairs affirming our country’s sovereignty and all that comes with it. The statement, of course, responds to the numerous declarations in relation to the March 2 elections that have come from […]

Dear Editor,IF the events that followed the March 2nd General and Regional Elections, coupled with the present COVID-19 outbreak, do not motivate us as Guyanese to pull together for what may be the very survival of our people and nation-state, then I think we can say that nothing will. Real leaders, whose only aim is […]

MY TURN EVENTS over the past 12 months have been swirling in my mind as I revisited the epic work of Dr Cheddi Jagan, The West on Trial, in which he recounted the sordid episodes of subversion in Guyana from what he graphically described as “Anglo-American imperialism.” Literally, in 1964, I experienced the birth of […]

Dear Editor, I REFER to a letter published in the Kaieteur News dated Friday, March 27, 2020, captioned “Ministers no longer hold their offices; no longer entitled to publicly funded salaries and benefits, and the use of State resourcesp” under the pen of Charles S. Ramson, Attorney at Law. The matter at caption, Ramson attributes […]

…was used to file application in elections matters REAZ Holladar, the applicant for the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) in an ongoing elections court case, has taken his own life. According to reports from the Guyana Police Force, 28-year-old Holladar of lot A-B Delhi and Omai Streets, Prashad Nagar, reportedly shot himself in the head with […]

IT’s almost four weeks since Guyanese went to the polls to decide who would govern our beloved country for the next five years. Unfortunately, the final results have not been announced, thanks to a series of delaying tactics by one of the major contestants. Although GECOM made its declaration of the winner in the crucial […]

Dear Editor, IN the light of rising cases of the global COVID-19 pandemic, it has been brought to my attention via social media that PPP/C supporters are “guarding the ballot boxes” in contravention of safe social- distancing policies. This is a dangerous health risk for spreading the coronavirus. First, the World Health Organisation (WHO) discovered […]

Dear Editor WHEN Change Guyana (CG) was birthed, most Guyanese sat expectantly awaiting the new outfit to unveil its political identity. The wait was not long since information was soon descending on their heads faster than that of the Kaieteur Falls. First in the headlines and on the political radar were Robert Badal and Nigel […]