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One day he was serving as a local observer for the elections representing the Private Sector Commission, and the next day he was in handcuffs being taken off an American Airlines flight in New York after striking a deal over pending drug trafficking charges. Businessman Ghalee Khan who is a partner in a local security […]
PPP General Secretary Bharrat Jagdeo met this morning with members of the Elections Observer team from the OAS headed by former Jamaican Prime Minister Bruce Golding. According to a statement from the PPP, during the meeting, Mr. Jagdeo raised a number of issues of concern. He told the OAS that there appears to be an […]
President David Granger today met and held talks with members of the OAS Observer Mission, which is being led by Former Jamaican Prime Minister Bruce Golding. According to a statement from the President’s Office, he told the officials that the elections were orderly and reminded them that the Elections Commission is an independent and constitutional […]
While refusing to take questions from News Source, Chairman of A New and United Guyana, Attorney Timothy Jonas, skirted around questions about the origins of the Statements of Poll that his party was using to verify the results of the Region 4 elections. “I am not speaking to you”, Jonas told News Source at the […]
Leader of the Liberty and Justice Party Lenox Shuman today said the Statements of Poll that his party was using to verify the results of the elections came from some of its own agents and some of the partners on the joiner list. The Liberty and Justice Party, The New Movement and A New and […]
Chief Justice Roxanne George ruled this afternoon that the High Court has jurisdiction to hear the matter over whether the Returning Officer for Region 4 should be forced to return to the verification process before declaring results for the region’s elections. The decision essentially means that the Guyana Elections Commission has to await the outcome […]
The Bar Council of the Guyana Bar Association is calling on the Chairperson of the Elections Commission, Retired Justice Claudette Singh to ensure that all necessary steps are taken so that the results of last Monday’s elections can withstand local and international scrutiny before making any declaration required by law. In a statement, the group […]
The Commissioners of the Guyana Elections Commission who were nominated by the People’s Progressive Party have objected to a request by the Chief Elections Officer for a meeting of the Commission to be convened for him to hand in his final report on the elections. That final report is expected to contain the results of […]
After spending her Saturday listening to arguments from Attorneys representing the Guyana Elections Commission and the People’s Progressive Party Civic, Chief Justice Roxanne George has set 1:30 pm on Sunday for the handing down of her decision on whether the injunction blocking the full declaration of results should stand or be thrown out. That injunction […]
While calling on electoral officials in Guyana and the political parties to work together to achieve a peaceful and lawful completion of the electoral process, the Chairman of CARICOM and Barbados’ Prime Minister Mia Mottley has indicated the readiness of the regional body to play the role of mediator between the two main political parties. […]
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