Category: Guyana Chronicle

…as Region Four votes finally declared After more than a week of confrontations and legal actions, the votes for District Four for the General and Regional Elections were finally declared by the Returning Officer, Clairmont Mingo on Friday night, amid heavy police presence at the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) High Street, Kingston Headquarters. According to […]

CHIEF Justice (ag) Roxane George-Wiltshire, on Friday, said the Returning Officer for Region Four, Clairmont Mingo, must produce the statements of poll (SOPs) during the tabulation of votes for his electoral district, as she offered greater clarity to her March 11 judgment. “The statement of poll has to be shown,” Justice George-Wiltshire said. At the […]

Dear Editor,This letter is being dictated in the midst of uncertainty as we await the results of our 2020 elections. It is also written as we approach the proverbial ‘Ides of March.’This was a time in the Roman calendar that the Mighty Julius Caesar ignored warnings to stay indoors. He ventured out and this led […]

…questions objectivity of Bruce Golding The APNU+AFC Coalition said it has taken note of the statement issued on Friday by the Organization of American States Observer Mission to Guyana and that it is alarmed by the missive. “The APNU+AFC is alarmed by what purports to be a wholly partisan statement which fails to take into […]

Dear Editor,  The Justice For All Party is one of the six parties in the coalition.  We do believe in democracy and will not stand for misconduct by any party. Th.is is why we waited for the official count to be completed. It is absolutely essential that there be transparency in the process that GECOM […]

Dear EditorThe Demerara Waves published story of March 13, 2020, entitled ‘ACDA call on Western Nations to Stop Recolonization, Intervention in Guyana’s Electoral Process’, is a manufactured controversy and is designed to obfuscate from the real issue of electoral fraud in Guyana at this time. The laws of Guyana, Section 4 (1) and (3) of […]

Dear Editor,The interventionalist stand taken by elements of the diplomatic community and some foreign observers that is preventing GECOM from completing its work is an attempt at controlling the electoral process of an independent country, the subversion of Guyana’s judicial process and undermining its democracy. We African Guyanese reject the dictates of our former colonial […]

THE Guyana Elections Commission has stated that the Office of Region Four’s Returning Officer (RO) will be opened today from 09:30hrs to restart or continue the tabulation of the region’s Statements of Poll (SOPs). The announcement came on Wednesday following the ruling of Chief Justice, Roxane George-Wiltshire, that the declaration of results for District Four […]

Dear EditorThis statement was issued by the TIGI local observer team for the 2020 elections in Guyana. FREE and fair elections are indispensable in a democracy. Such elections convey the people’s choice of leadership and in the absence of a credible process for determining the results, the legitimacy of any leadership installed is questionable. All […]

OVER a week has passed since the March 2, 2020 Regional and General Elections were held. The “mother of all elections” has indeed lived up to the hype and has delivered some remarkable moments, many of which will remain etched in the minds of Guyanese the world over. Since then, Guyana has witnessed many scenes […]