DEMERARA WAVES: By Denis Chabrol – Tuesday, 21 June 2022
]In keeping with my commitment to establish a Commission of Inquiry (COI) to inquire into the events of the 2020 General and Regional Elections, I am pleased to announce that the following persons shall be appointed to conduct this inquiry:
Chairman of the Commission – Retired Justice of Appeal Stanley John; Former Attorney General, High Court Judge and Acting Justice of Appeal in the Eastern Caribbean, Godfrey P. Smith SC; Former Chair and Chief Elections Commissioner of India, Dr S. Y. Quraishi; and, Former Chancellor (ag), Carl Singh OR. CCH.
To assist the Commission with its work, Dr Afari Gyan and Dr Nasim Zaidi will serve as resource personnel.
In the coming weeks, the intended Commissioners and resource personnel will review the reports and documentation, set out modalities and commence work. Continue reading →
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GUYANA: Chief Elections Officer seeks correction of voters’ registers for LGE
LGE = Local Government Election
Kaieteur News – Dec 06, 2022 News – Chief Elections Officer, Vishnu Persaud has written Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission, Claudette Singh urging that the electoral body gives consideration to the delaying of holding Local Government Elections to facilitate corrections to the registers of voters.
Persaud’s letter comes days after the APNU+AFC Coalition approached the court seeking several declarations and four orders intended to nullify the preliminary list of electors and give rise to a new register of voters, before Local Government Elections (LGE) are held. Persaud in his letter to the GECOM chair warned that as a major election stakeholder, the Coalition’s concerns should not be ignored and as such, he set out several proposals to cure the defects on the lists. Continue reading →
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