Category: Guyana Chronicle

Dear Editor,I REFER to “Top Cop rebuffs KN story”, in the Guyana Chronicle of June 03, 2020. For the Kaieteur News, a print media that, since May 2015, has been an unabashed mouthpiece of an undemocratic and well-documented criminal state political party, to accuse the Commissioner of Police of sending false information to the Guyana […]

Dear Editor,IN an article written by me and published in the Stabroek News dated 3rd June, 2020 and captioned “Recount is not about simple numbers but a more complex and complete evaluation,” I presented factual evidence to buttress the claim as captured in the headline of said letter in response to the effrontery of the […]

Dear Editor,IF power-sharing in government is being contemplated at this time, I hope that commonsense and good sense will prevail and expose the folly, in all its aspects, of such a disastrous proposal and plan which is embodied and clothed with catastrophic consequences. Examining historical data of governance for the 23 years prior to May […]

Dear Editor,IN medicine, a patient would relate his/her symptoms to a doctor before any attempt at a diagnosis is made; and, most of the time, after tests are done, the doctor is able to make a diagnosis. Thereafter, treatment is administered, as in the case of cancer, to get to the source of the problem. […]

– GECOM meets today to discuss way forward AT the end of Friday, 76 ballot boxes from the Demerara-Mahaica Region (Region Four) were processed, however, a number of those counted boxes were not tabulated due to the absence of important documents, and the commission’s decision is being awaited. In fact, Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) Commissioner […]

Dear Editor,AS the recount process comes closer to completion, Mr. Frederick Kissoon is demonstrating that he is in a “deep” opposition conspiracy with elements supportive of the PPP/C to discredit and demonise GECOM’s Chair, Justice (Ret’d) Claudette Singh as they accuse her of collaboration with the government and the APNU+AFC to rig the elections, and […]

…Harmon says coalition will continue press GECOM to address irregularities CONSEQUENT upon the request by A Partnership for National Unity + Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) executive member Joseph Harmon for a response from the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) on what will be the outcome of his party’s objections in the national recount process, People’s Progressive […]

…AG says as EU complains about delayed abolition of the law…says dissolution of Parliament prevented scrubbing of the law The European Union has criticised the government for still having on its law books criminal defamation, which can see journalists being jailed for libel, but Attorney General, Basil Williams said that the administration had already committed […]

The European Union Election Observation Mission (EU EOM) has presented its final report on Guyana’s General and Regional Elections, noting several shortcomings by the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM); political parties and other stakeholders. The report was handed over by EU Ambassador to Guyana, Fernando Ponz Cantó to Chair of GECOM, Justice (Ret’d) Claudette Singh, on […]

THE purpose of our political system, as written in Article 13 of the Guyana Constitution, outlines that “the principal objective of the system of the State is to establish an inclusionary democracy by providing increasing opportunities for the participation of citizens and their organisations in the management and decision-making processes of the State, with particular […]