Guyana News

Results for 12 polling stations in Skeldon and Crabwood Creek, Corentyne show solid voting for the PPP/C.

The Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) said yesterday that the delayed release of the results of the general and regional elections held on Monday “mars any perception that  the poll can be considered successfully conducted, since the process of elections is not concluded until the results are finalized and published.”

The IDB became a signatory to the Inter-national Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) yesterday, at a ceremony hosted at the Fourth High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness in Busan, Korea.

Caricom Electoral Observers have found that Guyanese were given the opportunity under good conditions to elect a government on Election Day.

The Caricom Electoral Observer Mission has concluded that the St Lucia General Elections held on Monday can be considered by any objective standard to have been free and fair and that the results represented the will of the people.

A cellular phone store at Grove, East Bank Demerara was yesterday invaded by armed men, who carted off computers and a few cellular phones.

The Guyana Elections Commission will hold its next press briefing tomorrow which means there will be no declaration of the winner of Monday’s general election tonight.

Head of the Organisation of American States (OAS) Electoral Observer Mission, Professor Gordon Shirley called the 2011 polls an improvement over past elections and lauded the Guyana Elections Commission’s “significant” preparations ahead of voting, although he pointed out areas of concern such as the slothfulness of results and polling place irregularities.

President Bharrat Jagdeo this afternoon said that security forces are fully mobilised and on alert in the city to prevent any violence and he also announced that the PPP/C has withdrawn its request for the recounting of ballots in some areas.

Police today said that the body of the man who was fatally shot during an armed confrontation with police ranks carrying ballot boxes at Maripa Dukwari Landing, Cuyuni River, on November 27, 2011, was identified by his mother to be that of Dwayne Little known as “Tattoo Man”.

The Alliance For Change (AFC) this afternoon said that it will hold the balance of power in the next parliament saying that no party is likely to win a majority when Gecom makes the official announcement about the winner of Monday’s poll.

Opposition coalition A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) this morning said it will not accept the elections results unless several anomalies in the process were explained by the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM).

Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom) Chairman Dr Steve Surujbally said today at an 11 am press conference that the winner of the 2011 General Elections will be declared tonight, provided that calls for a recount of some 73 boxes by a particular party “do not interfere with the planned schedule”.

(Jamaica Observer) Telecommunications firm LIME has signed an agreement with the CARICOM secretariat to provide videoconferencing equipment and services to Jamaica and seven other member countries, as well as five other territories in the region.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The final straw has broken the camel’s back. Transport and Works Minister Mike Henry last night submitted his resignation to Prime Minister Andrew Holness as the flood of concerns over the management of projects by the National Works Agency (NWA) continued.

Head of the Commonwealth Observer Mission Denis Marshall says the group has concluded that Monday’s general elections represented a further strengthening of the democratic processes but the playing field for the poll campaign was not level, given that state resources, including state media, were used in the interest of the ruling party.

Everall Franklin, the leader of the Guyana Action Party (GAP) and Member of Parliament died this morning at a city hospital following a period of illness.

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – The National Kidney Dialysis Centre (NNC) of the Academic Hospital Paramaribo (AZP) has the potential to become the best in the CARICOM.

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – The judicial authorities in Suriname have not been officially informed yet by the Netherlands about the detention of a group of Chinese who wanted to travel to Suriname with forged documents.

Results for 12 polling stations in Skeldon and Crabwood Creek, Corentyne show solid voting for the PPP/C.