Efforts to have the Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) reverse a decision to exclude from the Official List of Electors (OLE) those persons who have not collected their Identification cards have failed.
The more than 25,000 names will be published in the four national newspapers for 21 days beginning this weekend.
Speaking with reporters following yesterday’s statutory meeting of GECOM, Opposition-nominated Commissioner Sase Gunraj lamented that even though he and his colleagues disagreed with the decision, the Chairman, retired Justice Claudette Singh, “is insisting on publishing the names of the persons who have not collected their identification cards”