By News Source Guyana on July 14, 2020
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Through Attorney Mayo Robertson, private Citizen Misenga Jones has filed Court action against the Guyana Elections Commission, the Chair and Chief Elections Officer of the Commission and the Attorney General. The applicant is seeking a declaration that the Chair of the Elections Commission is acting outside of the Constitution by the decision not use the […]
By News Source Guyana on July 13, 2020
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The Chairperson of the Guyana Elections Commission, retired Justice Claudette Singh has decided to dispose of the 10 District Declarations that were made on the 13th March and has replaced those Declarations with the Certificates of Recount. In her decision at today’s meeting of the Commission, the GECOM Chair said: “the results of March 13 […]
By News Source Guyana on July 13, 2020
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Even with the Guyana Elections Commissions still to make a final declaration of the 2nd March elections, the Secretary-General of the Organisation of American States is making moves to summon a meeting of the Permanent Council of the OAS on the situation in Guyana. In a brief statement on twitter, the OAS Secretary-General, Luis Almagro […]
By News Source Guyana on July 13, 2020
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The Chairperson of the Guyana Elections Commission has rejected the report submitted on Saturday to the Guyana Elections Commission by the Chief Election Officer and has now instructed him to submit a report in keeping with her original request. According to Commissioner Vincent Alexander, at today’s meeting of the Guyana Elections Commission, the Chairman told […]
By News Source Guyana on July 13, 2020
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The Guyana Elections Commission is set to meet this morning and the #1 issue on the agenda is expected to be the submitted report of the Chief Election Officer, which has come in for widespread criticism from several quarters. The Chief Election Officer submitted his final report on the election on Saturday, one day after […]
By News Source Guyana on July 10, 2020
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The Guyana Defence today announced that the recently appointed acting Chief-of-Staff, Brigadier Godfrey Bess and a high level military team met today with the Diplomatic representatives of the US, UK, Canada and the EU. While not divulging details of the meeting, the GDF in a Facebook post said the Chief of Staff reiterated the “apolitical […]
By News Source Guyana on July 10, 2020
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Region Eight has now recorded its first cases of the Coronavirus. That means that 9 of Guyana’s Ten Administrative regions have reported cases. The only region to not report a case is Region Five. The Public Health Ministry today reported that there are four new cases following 25 tests that were completed within the past […]
By News Source Guyana on July 10, 2020
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Today’s meeting of the Guyana Elections Commission ended after more than two hours with no final report being submitted by the Chief Election Officer after he sought a number of clarifications from the Chairman of the Elections. The GECOM Chair has since responded reinforcing her earlier request and requesting that the Chief Election Officer now […]
By News Source Guyana on July 9, 2020
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The Chairperson of the Guyana Elections Commission has written to the Chief Election Officer, Keith Lowenfield requesting that he prepares and submits a new report from the 2nd March elections using the valid votes counted in the National Recount as they appear on the Certificates of Recount. The Chief Election Officer has up until 2pm […]
By News Source Guyana on July 9, 2020
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The new Chairman of CARICOM, St. Vincent’s Prime Minister, Dr. Ralph Gonsalves is calling on all the stakeholders in Guyana to respect the ruling of the Caribbean Court of Justice in the election case. While commending the continued patience and calm of the Guyanese people, Dr. Gonsalves reminded that in its summary, the CCJ noted […]