Newly-appointed Chair of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) retired Justice Claudette Singh will preside over her first meeting of the commission on August 15, one day after the acting Chief Justice, Roxane George provides a ruling on a challenge to the House-to-House registration exercise underway.
Stabroek News has been reliably informed that the six other members of the commission were yesterday invited to a meeting with Singh; the agenda of which lists only one substantial item: the way forward in holding General and Regional Elections.
Singh who was appointed on July 29 spent her first full day of work on July 30 being familiarized with the operation of the commission and met separately with both sides of the commission on July 31. She met with the opposition-nominated commissioners for 90 minutes at GECOM’s headquarters in Kingston and with the government-nominated commissioners for three hours.