Category: Kaieteur News

 Apr 03, 2020  News • Chair asks Commission to discuss recount• GECOM refuses to consider Lowenfield’s report on contentious elections results• Lowenfield asked to contemplate operationalisation of recount• Govt, Opposition commissioners in support of recount• Decision expected today By Kemol King The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) is expected to decide on the way forward for the […]

 Apr 03, 2020  News Three Judges will hear arguments in the case filed by the legal team of APNU+AFC candidate Ulita Moore against the nationwide recount of votes cast at the March 2, 2020 Regional and General Elections. During a brief case management hearing at the Appeal Court in Kingston, Georgetown yesterday, Appeal Court Judges, Justices […]

 Apr 03, 2020  News – Sustains call transparent and credible vote count By Shikema Dey United States Ambassador to Guyana, Sarah-Ann Lynch has called out the coalition, A Partnership For National Unity + Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC), on its claims of “foreign interference” in Guyana’s March 2, 2020 General and Regional Elections process. Over the past […]

 Apr 03, 2020  News A decision to sell a Water Street wharf to businessman, Brian ‘BK’ Tiwari, days before the March 2nd elections is emerging as a bitter fight now. The People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) made it clear yesterday that it remains deeply suspicious of the transaction and whether Guyana received value for its money.The wharf […]

 Apr 02, 2020  News Days before the March 2nd general and regional elections, government transferred a key piece of waterfront property to B.K. Marine Incorporated. The transaction is now being described as highly suspicious, with calls for a probe.“This obviously smells…a couple days before elections. It is completely unacceptable,” said attorney-at-law, Christopher Ram.Ram, also a Chartered […]

 Apr 02, 2020  News The government-nominated Commissioners on the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) are straining the patience and tolerance of the nation.Following the agreement between President David Granger and Bharrat Jagdeo to have a recount of the total votes cast in the General and Regional Elections, the government-nominated Commissioners asked to be privy to the agreement […]

 Apr 02, 2020  News The government-nominated Commissioners on the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) are straining the patience and tolerance of the nation.Following the agreement between President David Granger and Bharrat Jagdeo to have a recount of the total votes cast in the General and Regional Elections, the government-nominated Commissioners asked to be privy to the agreement […]

 Apr 02, 2020  News All of Guyana was yesterday preparing for the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) to meet and to deliberate on how the country would move forward in conclusion of its electoral process, which has lasted for one month, to the day. GECOM Chair, Justice Claudette Singh had told Kaieteur News of a planned meeting […]

 Apr 01, 2020 The Full Court has thrown out the case filed by APNU – AFC candidate Ulita Moore to block the nationwide recount of votes cast at the March 2, 2020 Regional and General elections . In a unanimous ruling yesterday, the Full Court, which comprised of Chief Justice (Ag) Roxanne George and Justice […]

 Apr 01, 2020 By Kemol King Prime Ministerial hopeful, Khemraj Ramjattan has denied accusations that calls made by the Alliance for Change (AFC) for a government of national unity are opportunistic.He made this and other comments in an interview over the phone on Kaieteur Radio’s Elections Watch yesterday. The AFC leader was at the time […]