By News Source Guyana on May 15, 2015
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Bishop Francis Alleyne of the Roman Catholic Church has joined the long list of persons calling on the People’s Progressive Party to immediately concede the elections. “I call on all to exercise moderation, for the losing party to concede immediately upon the declaration and the winner to magnanimously accept, so that as one people we […]
By News Source Guyana on May 15, 2015
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Top Guyanese Ambassador Odeem Ishmael has publicly called on the People’s Progressive Party to concede defeat in the 2015 elections for which preliminary results released by the Guyana Elections Commission, show an end to its 23 year rule. Ishamel is currently Guyana’s Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Kuwait. In a Facebook post on Thursday, Ishamel urged […]
By News Source Guyana on May 15, 2015
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A number of Government Ministers have started to thank their staff and have moved out of their ministries even as President Donald Ramotar and former President Bharrat Jagdeo have indicated that they do not intend to concede defeat in Monday’s elections. Foreign Affairs Minister, Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett sent an email to all her staff members, thanking […]
By News Source Guyana on May 14, 2015
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Former executive member of the People’s Progressive Party, Senior Counsel Ralph Ramkarran has issued a call for the incumbent to concede that it lost the elections and move on in cooperation with the development of the country. In a post on his Facebook page, Mr. Ramkarran who also served as the Speaker of the National […]
By News Source Guyana on May 14, 2015
Elections, News, Politics
President Donald Ramotar on Thursday indicated that he was not prepared to concede defeat in the 2015 elections as he still has concerns about elections process. The President would like to see a manual recount of every one of the over four hundred thousand ballots that were cast. At a Freedom House press conference, Mr. […]
By News Source Guyana on May 14, 2015
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Minutes after the Guyana Elections Commission released final preliminary results for Monday’s elections which puts the Opposition Coalition ahead of the ruling party by just over 5000 votes, APNU+AFC Presidential Candidate David Granger has called on his supporters to “let the celebration be sober and short.” During a visit the Brigadier’s home, he acknowledged the […]
By News Source Guyana on May 14, 2015
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The coalition between A Partnership for National Unity and the Alliance For Change will lead the next government of Guyana. The Chief Elections Officer, Keith Lowenfield on Thursday afternoon released the official final preliminary results of the 2015 elections. The results revealed that the APNU+AFC picked up 206, 817 votes as compared to 201, 457 […]
By News Source Guyana on May 14, 2015
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The U.S. Embassy in Georgetown on Thursday said it stands by its assessment of Guyana’s electoral process being free, fair, and credible. In a statement, The United States Embassy said it is in receipt of the recent allegations made by the Peoples Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) and has looked into the claims. “Nothing contained therein changes our […]
By News Source Guyana on May 14, 2015
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A Guyanese man identified as Phillip Reid, fatally shot his girlfriend’s secret lover before turning the gun on himself after he walked in on the cheating couple Wednesday morning in Brooklyn, New York. The New York Post reports that the jilted 27-year-old boyfriend, went to his girlfriend’s home on Dean Street in Brownsville around 9:45 […]
By News Source Guyana on May 13, 2015
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The APNU+AFC coalition is leading the ruling People’s Progressive Party in the first preliminary report released by the Guyana elections Commission late Wednesday by a small margin. According the GECOM’s stats, the opposition coalition has amassed a total of 157, 347 in the general elections while the PPP Civic votes total 157, 304 after a […]