Jimmy Carter to lead Carter Center observers
APRIL 16, 2015 · BY STABROEK EDITOR · COMMENTS
Jimmy Carter
Former US President Jimmy Carter who played a pivotal role in spurring electoral reforms that led to free and fair elections in 1992 will be heading the Carter Center observer team to next month’s general elections.
The announcement was made today by the Atlanta, Georgia-based Carter Center. The Center had not mounted observer missions to the 2006 and 2011 elections. Calls were made by the private sector here and others for the Center to mount a mission.
The Carter Center press release issued April 16 follows: Continue reading
Guyana Elections: Scare tactics can lead to serious consequences – commentary
Scare tactics can lead to serious consequences
April 16, 2015 | By KNews | Filed Under Editorial
Scare tactics are being used to garner votes during the upcoming elections. This is something that was once done extensively in small communities where landed people wanted to maintain control over the tenants. It was intended to make the people feel that they are better off where they are, that to take any step away from this path would be detrimental to their very existence.
However, as civilisation progressed, the rulers found that it was futile to introduce fear tactics into any election campaign. Of course, as far back as the Second World War, people in the various countries that comprised the allies and the axis forces set about instilling in their peoples the need to fear the other. Continue reading →
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