Recount ‘completely acceptable’ for declaration of result

By Thandeka Percival On In Guyana News |
The CARICOM team on their arrival here on May 2nd (from left to right) Sylvester King, Deputy Supervisor of Elections of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Cynthia Barrow-Giles, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Government at the University of the West Indies and John Jarvis, Commissioner of the Antigua and Barbuda Electoral Commission. (CARICOM photo)
The CARICOM team on their arrival here on May 2nd (from left to right) Sylvester King, Deputy Supervisor of Elections of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Cynthia Barrow-Giles, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Government at the University of the West Indies and John Jarvis, Commissioner of the Antigua and Barbuda Electoral Commission. (CARICOM photo)

In a blistering report the three-person scrutinizing team from CARICOM declared that the National Recount of votes and by extension the March 2, 2020 general and regional elections were sufficiently transparent to reflect the will of the Guyanese people and form the basis for the declaration of the results.

“The people of Guyana expressed their will at the ballot box and as a result the CARICOM observer team concludes that the recount results are completely acceptable,” they concluded in their report submitted to GECOM yesterday.