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Stabroek News – 13 May 2015
With results from 1809 polling stations out of 2299 polling stations released, the APNU+AFC alliance has received 157, 347 votes while the PPP/C received 157, 304 votes for the 2015 general elections, according to data released by the Guyana Elections Commission. Continue reading
Wednesday, 13 May 2015 18:51 – Written by Demerara Waves
Photo: APNU+AFC Presidential candidate, David Granger and delegation leave GECOM’s compound after meeting with the Commission.
The A Partnership for National Unity+ Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) coalition hopes the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) will scrap a partial vote recount in several districts because of questions surrounding the legality of doing so.
Demerara Waves Online News could not immediately confirm with senior GECOM officials whether they would give into the coalition’s demand for the recount to be stopped. Continue reading
Fmr US President Jimmy Carter
By Staff Editor On May 13, 2015 @ 7:41 pm In Local News
Wednesday, 13 May 2015 16:28 – Written by Demerara Waves
Photo: Left to Right: Charge D’Affaires of the US Embassy, Bryan Hunt; Canada’s High Commissioner to Guyana, Nicole Giles and Britain’s High Commissioner Gregory Quinn talking with reporters shortly after meeting executive members of the PPP at Freedom House, Robb Street, Georgetown.
The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) Wednesday afternoon began recounting votes in three districts, following bitter complaint by the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) about alleged skullduggery.
GECOM Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Keith Lowenfield says GECOM is going ahead with the partial recounts of ballots in regions/districts 1, 2 and 8. Continue reading
Demerara Waves – 13 May 2015 – http://bit.ly/1E5Ub4h
The People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) intends to ask for a partial recount of ballots in all 10 regions, according to Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), Dr. Steve Surujbally.
Surujbally,however, said results to be disseminated by 6PM Wednesday could show a trend towards who would have won the May 11, 2015 general elections. “”You will define it as a trend. I will give it to you as raw data,” he said.
“We will decide by 5pm how we will proceed with the declaration of results in their entirety,” he told a news briefing. He, however, reiterated that the final official results that include the declaration of a winner would be made by the Chief Elections Officer Keith Lowenfield only after he receives such an instruction from the seven-member Commission. Continue reading
Guyana: Capitol TV News Videos – 12 May 2015
THE APNU+AFC COALITION IS PROJECTED TO WIN THE GUYANA ELECTIONS
Posted: 12 May 2015 03:30 PM PDT Continue reading
US prosecutors have started the final process of seizing more than US$400,000 in cash from bank accounts and two planes belonging to Guyanese pilot, Khamraj Lall.
The US$442,743.59 was frozen in accounts at Wells Fargo bank, Citibank and Morgan Chase Bank after investigators zeroed in on Lall after he was caught by Puerto Rican authorities with US$600,000 in cash stashed in his plane back in November. The money from the plane was seized, also.
In essence, the prosecutors are asking that the properties in the custody of investigators be transferred to the state. Continue reading
New GPC owner, Bobby Ramroop
– “Shows how “evil, corrupt, greedy and ruthless” PPP/C can be,” Ramjattan, Greenidge
A Partnership for National Unity plus Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC), has lashed out, once again, at the government for granting billions of dollars in sole sourced drug contracts to New GPC.
For the coalition, the alarming development was that on May 8, last, New GPC uplifted the entire billion-dollar cheque (US 12.8M) for a recent drug contract awarded to that company.
That was the last working day before General and Regional elections. The payment arrangement was also contrary to all the country’s procurement procedures.
Traditionally, 25 per cent of the contract is paid up front. Continue reading
Business community jittery; ABC diplomats urge normalcy
Top Western diplomats in Guyana say let businesses continue as several owners in Georgetown opted to keep their doors closed Tuesday owing to the unrest in Sophia last night. Last evening several…
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Private sector calls on political parties, police to take anti-violence measures
In the wake of the fiery violence that erupted Monday night in Sophia that left several vehicles burnt, the Private Sector Commission (PSC) on Tuesday called on political parties to rein in their…
