Video of minister’s controversial meeting with observers presented at elections inquiry

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Karen Cummings meeting with some members of the foreign observer teams. Owen Arthur is seated third from left. (Photo taken from Frank Anthony’s Facebook page)
Karen Cummings meeting with some members of the foreign observer teams. Owen Arthur is seated third from left. (Photo taken from Frank Anthony’s Facebook page)

Although there was a rule by the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) stating that no political party or any presidential candidates were allowed to have any meetings at the Ashmins building, which was the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) Command Centre for the 2020 elections, then Minister of Foreign Affairs Dr Karen Cummings was seen inside the building in a room with the Deputy Chief Election Officer (DCEO) Roxanne Myers and a number of international observers on the day of a bomb scare.

This was stated on Thursday by GECOM commissioner Sase Gunraj and seen in a video which was presented as evidence to the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the elections yesterday.