GEORGETOWN, Guyana — A High Court judge on Tuesday granted an injunction against the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) preventing it from carrying out a national recount of votes from the disputed March 2 regional and general elections. said that the injunction remains in effect pending a hearing on Friday, March 20. The injunction was granted […]
By Govind Hinds Guyanese went to the polls on March 2 last and as of March 17, the official winner is yet to be declared by the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) which has vigorously asserted its sovereignty and control over every aspect of the electoral process. Both the ruling APNU coalition and the opposition PPP […]
Thousands of Guyanese in Toronto assembled at Nathan Phillip Square on Sunday to voice their concerns about election irregularities in Guyana.They are calling on the Guyana Elections Commission to complete the verification of Region 4 votes in the presence of observers and party agents and then declare the results. They are also calling on the […]
GEORGETOWN – Guyana’s top court on Sunday upheld an injunction blocking the elections commission from proclaiming a winner in this month’s presidential election, delaying the results of a vote that has been marred by accusations of fraud. A protester was killed and demonstrators took to the streets after diplomats described credible evidence of fraud in […]
GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Chairman of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Prime Minister Mia Mottley of Barbados has called for good sense to prevail in Guyana so that there can be “a peaceful and lawful completion” of the election process there. Allegations of fraud and violent protests, which have so far resulted in one death, have characterized […]
By Govind Hinds Guyana went to the polls on March 2 and as of this date the final election results are still to be announced. This election has been defined as the mother of all elections as the world’s newest petro state began pumping oil in December and it’s economy set to explode from hyper […]
GEORGETOWN – Guyana’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) expanded by 4.7 percent in 2019 – the biggest growth since 2014. This was disclosed by Finance Minister Winston Jordan as spoke at a sod-turning ceremony for the proposed Hilton Hotel in East Coast Demerara. “While there has been positive growth from 2015, economic growth has been cumulative […]
GEORGETOWN, Guyana – The border dispute between Guyana and Venezuela is set to go before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) next month. The ICJ has scheduled a hearing for the week of March 23, on the controversy arising from Venezuela’s contention that the Arbitral Award of October 3, 1899 establishing the boundary with Guyana […]
With three weeks to go before this country’s General and Regional elections, it has been announced that former Prime Minister of Senegal, Aminata Touré, will play a major role in monitoring the process. According to the US-based, Carter Center, Touré and Jason J. Carter, chairperson of The Carter Center Board of Trustees, will co-lead the […]
Chairman of CARICOM and Prime Minister of Barbados, Mia Amor Mottley, paid a courtesy call on Guyana’s key opposition figures, including former president and current Opposition Leader, Bharrat Jagdeo, on Monday. During the visit, Jagdeo told Mottley he believed it was critical that CARICOM maintained a strong observer presence in that country during national elections […]
