Category: Guyana Chronicle

…President says electoral process was compromised…asserts role of Caricom scrutineers; CEO in preparation of recount, observation reports…again calls on Guyanese to await declaration by GECOM PRESIDENT David Granger, while maintaining that he will accept the results of the General and Regional Elections as declared by the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), said from all indication the […]

By Adam HarrisMANY people take some things for granted. They see roads being built, or garbage being collected or transportation provided for their children to go to school and they take those things for granted.Prior to May 2015 Georgetown was a dump. People called it the Garbage City without a measure of disgust. They simply […]

Another week and another mountain of evidence unearthed to bring to the attention of GECOM and Guyana the extent to which some went to steal the government of Guyana. Another week and another set of attempts by the PPP to bully its way to power by changing the rules it agreed to. Another week and […]

THE discovery of 29 ballot boxes void of crucial statutory documents sparked a response from a Deputy Returning Officer (DRO), who contended that it was the instructions of the Region Four Returning Officer (RO) Clairmont Mingo to exclude the documents but this, other DROs have said, is far from the truth. “Please be informed that […]

…Sir Shridath urges AS the national recount of votes cast at the March2, 2020 elections comes to a close, revered Guyanese Diplomat, Sir Shridath Ramphal, has urged citizens not to allow the country to slip into chaos. “As Guyana nears the tipping point of its ‘elections crisis’ I plead with all my fellow Guyanese not […]

– DROs a ‘no-show’ at GECOM meeting – Commission decides to exclude SoRs from tabulation By Svetlana MarshallTHE Elections Secretariat has thus far reached a dead-end in its search for critical documents that were discovered missing when 29 ballot boxes from the East Coast of Demerara (ECD) were opened at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre; and […]

Dear Editor, SINCE March 2, 2020, there has been much activity around the Recount Process. There are questions of its legality, and some see it as an act of commitment and good faith by His Excellency, President David Granger. The Recount Process was gazette, and all political parties were getting into gear; GECOM itself had […]

BY tomorrow I expect the completion of the recount of all valid ballots cast in the March 2, 2020 elections in Guyana. This will be the first of four stages – Recount, Report, Review and Results (4Rs) – to which the President, the Opposition Leader and the Elections Commission have agreed to resolve the impasse […]

Dear Editor, “THE law, as I have been saying, is the greatest invention of man, and the law says, that fraud is fraud. A fraud, once committed, makes everything a nullity; everything that is tainted by fraud is void, ab inito, meaning from the inception.” Words beautifully put and passionately articulated by the man whose […]

…as GECOM warns against unauthorised pronouncement on election results Even in the absence of a complete recount process as outlined in the Order, there have been unofficial reports announcing the results of the March 2, 2020 General and Regional Elections but the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) is warning against such actions – behind the backdrop […]