Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport Charles Ramson, who was the then Region Four Counting Agent for the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) during the March 2020 elections, said his efforts to deliver a letter requesting a recount of votes tabulated for District Four to Returning Officer (RO) Clairmont Mingo had been frustrated by police officers.
Ramson, testifying on Wednesday before the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the March 2020 elections, said that after Mingo declared the results for District Four on March 5, 2020 on the ground floor of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) Command Centre, at the Ashmin’s Building, he never got the chance to serve his party’s letter on Mingo as he (Mingo) had swiftly gone to the third floor of the building.