CARICOM observers preparing for Monday’s elections

Cynthia Cleopatra Combie-Martyr
Cynthia Cleopatra Combie-Martyr

Members of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Election Observation Mission (CEOM) have begun arriving in Guyana to monitor the country’s Regional and General Elections on Monday.

According to a CARICOM release, the full complement of the 14-member Mission will be in Guyana tomorrow and stay on the ground until March 4.

Cynthia Cleopatra Combie-Martyr, of Saint Lucia, is leading the Mission which includes electoral management experts from Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Haiti, Jamaica, Saint Lucia, St Kitts and Nevis, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname and Trinidad and Tobago.

The observation mission will be assisted by Brian Belle-vue, Serojnie Seetaram, and Denise Morgan of the CARICOM Secretariat.

The Chief of Mission is scheduled to depart Guyana on March 5.

The members of CEOM are: Cynthia Cleopatra Combie Martyr – St Lucia; John M. Jarvis, Commissioner, and Carolyn Thomas-Parker – Antigua and Barbuda; Philip Anthony Turner – The Bahamas; Lesa Collins and Leonard Walters – Barbados, Yves-Marie Edouard – Haiti; Glendon Ricardo Bennett – Jamaica; Lionel Sydney Osborne – St Kitts and Nevis; Gaspar Jn. Baptiste – Saint Lucia; Sylvester Anthony King – St Vincent and the Grenadines; Renuka Raghoe – Suriname; and Fern Narcis-Scope and Dr Noel Kalicharan – Trinidad and Tobago.