Category: Kaieteur News

 Jun 05, 2020  News As the nation nears the conclusion of the recount of the votes cast in the March 2 General and Regional Elections, the Private Sector Commission (PSC) is calling on all the people of Guyana and the contesting parties to recognise and accept the results.The PSC noted that the recount, agreed to by […]

 Jun 05, 2020  News With days left in the National 2020 elections recount, the Organization of American States General Secretariat last night sent out a statement commending the recount process but also highlighting Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM’)s refusal to release statement of polls.“Despite some inconsistencies,” the statement read, “in the electoral materials reviewed during the recount, […]

 Jun 05, 2020     Five members of the law-making US congress have written incumbent President, David Granger, about the acceptance of the recount results.According to the letter released yesterday, at stakes for Granger now is a place in the country’s history books. The letter would follow other statements from US officials, including from the State […]

 Jun 05, 2020  News A supervisor working for the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) National Recount has refused to note an observation by The Citizenship Initiative (TCI) that the tabulation by the Region Four Returning Officer, Clairmont Mingo, in one instance, inflated the votes of the governing Coalition, APNU+AFC. This was revealed by TCI Presidential Candidate, Rondha-Ann […]

 Jun 05, 2020  News On Day 30 of the National Recount exercise, the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) managed to complete an additional 83 ballot boxes, thereby completing the recount for Regions Six and 10. This now increases the total number of recounted ballot boxes to 2,582, with 243 remaining to be counted. GECOM’s Public Relations Officer […]

Jun 05, 2020  News Yesterday, the second consecutive day, the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) disenfranchised a significant number of voters from the March 2 Elections. This was after it was discovered that 108 ballot papers lacked the official stamp of GECOM. These 108 ballots have now been deemed invalid and were therefore rejected from the national […]

 Jun 05, 2020  News – Coalition demands answer from GECOM on ‘irregularities’ By Shikema Dey The APNU+AFC Coalition maintains that the information sent by the Immigration Department to the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) is accurate, even after 24 persons have now emerged with evidence to refute that information. APNU+AFC campaign manager, Joseph Harmon, yesterday at a […]

 Jun 04, 2020  News With last night’s updated recount numbers projecting a significant lead for the opposition, the APNU+AFC late last evening sent out a press release calling the recount results not credible.According to this paper’s latest analysis of the numbers coming out of the recount exercise, 84% of ballot boxes have been counted so far, […]

 Jun 04, 2020  News By Shikema Dey Six more persons have presented signed oaths of affidavits to refute the information sent by the Immigration Department to the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) that they departed Guyana and never returned.This now amounts to 14 persons who the Immigration Department incorrectly claimed left the country.False informationOn the first list […]

 Jun 04, 2020  News By Shikema Dey The human error of a young Assistant Presiding Officer (APO) resulted in a total of 83 ballots being deemed void from the Sophia Nursery School polling place, lower level polling station L-Z 41333Ciii. At the recount yesterday, ballot box #4549 was opened and recounted and the alarming numbers of […]