Four days after Chartered Accountant Terrence Jaskaran was considered by the Court to be an expert in forensic auditing, Principal Magistrate Faith Mc Gusty said that sentiments expressed by him in public could weigh on his testimony in Court as the 2020 Elections Case continued in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court today.

Notwithstanding the objections of Special Prosecutor Latchmie Rahamat, who argued that as a citizen of Guyana, Jaskaran has a right to an opinion, the Principal Magistrate admitted into evidence a document containing a post made by the witness in August 2026, in which he described the opposition, APNU as a “clown show”.

“I do believe that these views held by the witness, and expressed by him in public may bear on the weight of his opinions given to the Court,” Magistrate Mc Gusty said, while adding that the “numerical value” of his testimony, however, “cannot be faulted.”

It was Defence Attorney, Eusi Anderson, who made an application to the Court for the document to be tendered into evidence as he cross-examined Jaskaran.

The issue was first raised by Attorney-at-Law Nigel Hughes this morning, who while pointing to a number of Facebook posts made by Jaskaran in 2025, sought to establish the issue of political bias. In an article posted on Facebook on August 20, 2025 under the title “APNU (PNC) and their infamous history of elections rigging,” Jaskaran accused the PNC and by extension APNU of rigging elections in Guyana.

“Since independence in 1966, there have been five (5) elections that international observers did not deem as free and fair and/or there were attempts to rig and steal the elections. In all five of those instances the government was the PNC (APNU). There was not one elections under the PPP’s governance that international observers did not deem as free, fair and an expression of the will of the people. So it is ludicrous to even suggest that it is the PPP that would attempt to win an elections and even shameful when such suggestions come from the party that has rigged or attempted to steal five of our elections since independence,” an excerpt of that article read.

In his lengthy article, he repeatedly submitted that the “bottom line” was that the PNC now dubbed APNU rigged elections in Guyana.

With reference to the 2020 elections, Jaskaran concluded that the 2020 elections were the latest attempt by the APNU to rig the elections, adding that he coalition now seeks to distort that memory.

“The voting at the elections itself was fair, but what followed during the tabulation stage was nothing short of the PNC of old. This was the first time that the APNU (PNC) was back in power at an election since 1992, and like the first four elections after independence under their watch, they sought to return to the ways of rigging for victory. That anyone would even seek to deny the blatant and shameless attempts by the APNU (PNC) to openly steal the 2020 elections is laughable. Had these actions been carried out in the 60’s, 70’s, 80’s, the APNU (PNC) would have succeeded,” another section of the article read.

Those extracts were read out in Court by Hughes, and Jaskaran confirmed that the post was written by him, and those were his sentiments. 

Last Friday, and then again on Monday, Jaskaran testified that that the APNU+AFC had a variance of more than 20,000 votes, when the certified copies of the Region 4 Statements of Poll (SOPs) were compared to the March 5, 2020 Declaration made during the course of the 2020 General Elections.

He testified that in the case of the March 13, 2020 Declaration, APNU+AFC had a variance of more than 19,000 votes when the certified copies of the Region 4 SOPs were compared with that declaration.

The Chartered Accountant had received, what he described as “certified copies” of the SOPs from the Registrar of the High Court on May 29, 2021 after he was hired by the Ministry of Home Affairs to conduct of the 2020 Elections.

As he was being cross-examined by Anderson today, Jaskaran told the Court that of the 10 Electoral Districts, variances were recorded in seven of those regions, with the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) recording wins in five of those regions.

But while Jaskaran was hired by the Home Affairs Ministry to audit the 2020 Elections, he admitted, under cross-examination, that he has no training in election related processes or how to tabulate valid votes cast in an election, nor does he possess the skills to determine whether the elections materials he received were “true and genuine.”

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