– maintains that it is not simply a numerical recount SINCE the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has undertaken to facilitate a national recount of votes cast in the March 2020 Elections, several proposals have come to the fore, but Commissioner Vincent Alexander believes that those which speak to timelines of 10 and 12 days are […]
Category: Guyana Chronicle
Hypocrisies of the Democracy
DEAR EDITOR,IT is evident that following the unique impeachment of the President of the United States of America last year, the international world and Americans especially, now find themselves unable to decipher truth from reality. With new uncertainty about many of the terms these hegemonies personally coined and reportedly represented, they have now been taking […]
GECOM should not act unconstitutionally
Dear Editor,GUYANA continues to endure the unprecedented General and Regional Elections impasse and heightened tension as a consequence of hesitancy on the part of the Chairperson of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) to adopt the Chief Executive Officer (CEO)’s final report for the March 2, 2020 declared election results. It is far from the best […]
Yes to a full recount! No to PPP’s bullyism!
IT IS difficult to remain quiet in the face of attempts at rank manipulation of the Guyanese people by the PPP. Why does the PPP continue to believe that Guyanese are dumb? Why do they continue to insult our intelligence? How can you present your party as a potential government while disregarding the basic tenets […]
There is no ‘Lowenfield proposal’
Dear Editor, THE reality of Good Friday and the restrictions imposed in the interest of mitigating COVID-19 have given me the latitude to pay more than usual attention to comments in the Media about GECOM, and, in this instance about Lowenfield, per se, in relation to the “Lowenfield proposal” of 156 days for the Recount. […]
MY TURN | RESTRICTIONS AND RECOUNT
OUR Guyanese people deserve a round of applause for almost faithful observance of restrictive measures, as the nation buckles down for the fight against the coronavirus. At the time of writing, 45 persons have tested positive, six of whom have died. Compared to confirmed cases in some 183 other countries, these statistics for Guyana are […]
Jagdeo has been using a populist stance
– to castigate American corporations such as ExxonMobil Dear Editor,ATTEMPTS are being fostered into paving the way of a digital coup d’etat in favour of the PPP. In a letter signed by Melinda Janki, Hinds, Gaskin, Goolsaran, et al, declarations have been announced that they do not recognise President David Granger as the Head of […]
Ingratitude is worse than witchcraft
Dear Sir,WHEN I was growing up in ‘Packoo Dam’, aka Wortmanville, my grandmother, ‘Clar-Clar’, often told me that “ingratitude was worse than witchcraft…” She said that when you are ungrateful, it shows a lack of training, or as she would say, upbringing. It was her duty, she claimed, to make me au fait about the […]
We are more than capable of conducting our own elections
Dear Editor, YOU have to remember that when foreign powers want you to act and think in a crrtain way that would bring justification to an action that they are already planning to make; they must make the person the bate, a villain. Civil war is bloodiest of all wars, because yon are fighting against […]
Voter turnout for March 2 elections around 70%
NOTWITHSTANDING a 13.3 per cent increase in the number of eligible voters, overall voter turnout here in Guyana has remained relatively stable, as the 72.5 per cent recorded for the March 2, 2020 General and Regional Elections has proven.The percentage at reference represents a marginal increase from the 71.3 per cent turnout recorded for the […]