Better plans need to be put in place to aid the differently-abled and the elderly in casting their votes at national elections, according to Dawn Stewart, Chief Executive Officer of the Guyanese Women’s Roundtable (GWR).
As Guyanese went to the polls yesterday, the GWR, on the heels of recent fundraisers, managed to hire several buses to transport elderly and differently-abled voters to their polling stations.
In spite of the success of the initiative, Stewart lamented the difficulty some of the differently-abled faced in getting to the polling stations that were on second floors. She said that there weren’t any ramps on the stairs or any other plan in place to assist the