Category: Guyana Chronicle

– he’s no right to interfere in Guyana’s elections Dear Editor,DR. Ralph Gonsalves, Prime Minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines is brazenly attempting to preempt the CARICOM elections recount Observer Mission in Guyana.In a radio interview on Wednesday, he attempted to dictate to GECOM how it should execute its functions as prescribed by the […]

– As threats issued to relinquish jobs– Coalition government assures of job security THE current political atmosphere has been causing and raising tension in the country as everyone awaits the final outcome of the national recount. Although no winner has as yet been declared or even hinted by the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), which is […]

Dear Editor,I WOULD like Mr. Bharrat Jagdeo to know he can fool some of the people some of the time, but he cannot fool all the people all the time. I had to blink more than once, because I couldn’t believe what I was reading in the newspapers. I read that Mr. Jagdeo was calling […]

Dear Editor,I NOTE with interest the robust reply to a letter by Dr. David Hinds, in which he argued that these elections could not be considered credible with all that has come to light during examination of the ballot boxes. All the concerned entities and individuals, including your newspaper, have crowned to the main issue, […]

–to do otherwise would be a miscarriage of Eustice, says APNU+AFC tabulation agent As Chief Elections Officer (CEO) Keith Lowenfield pre parts to submit his report on the first phase of the National Recount of the Marth 2, 2020 National and Region­al Elections, the perception abroad is that all the anom­alies bigblighted during the course […]

says such action inte1feres with integrity of recount process THE APNU+AFC coalition bas written to CARICOM Chair, Prime Minister of Barbados Mia Mottley indicating its concern about action taken by the People’s Progressive Party/ Civic (PPP/C) to celebrate victory prior to completion of the recount process.  The letter was penned on behalf of the party […]

Dear Editor,Electoral fraud has been committed; the people Guyana know it; all those who colluded for it to happen, know it and the world also knows. Only the Commission, and, more specifically, the Chairman, Justice Claudette Singh can let Guyana and the “Will of the people” breathe. It is extremely difficult for any reasonable thinking […]

Dear Editor,THE ongoing recount process at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre has been couched as a battle between the incumbent APNU-AFC coalition, and the opposition PPP-Civic coalition. Third parties have been framed as either guardians of the democratic will of the majority looking for change, or agent provocateurs of the opposition, depending on the point […]

ON May 11, 2015, when citizens went to the polls, were attention paid to their voices over the years, it would have been recognised that their ballot was a loud expression that they wanted a change, not merely in persons or group, but the manner in which governance is conducted. The APNU+AFC won the people’s […]

—but GECOM salvaged contents of water-logged Region One ballot box– 479 ballot boxes processed to date THE Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) Secretariat has successfully retrieved the contents of a ballot box that was filled with water; however, the number of workstations to be added to the existing 10 has not been finalised.While the Secretariat has […]