GEORGETOWN, Guyana — Justice (Ret’d) Claudette Singh, Chairperson of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), has written to the Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Ambassador Irwin LaRocque, to request the presence of and ascertain CARICOM’s willingness to have its high-level team return to Guyana during the execution of a National Recount of all the votes cast at the March 2, 2020 Elections, the Guyana Chronicle reported on April 15.
“It was during Tuesday’s meeting of the Commission that Justice Singh informed the six Commissioners that a letter was dispatched to the CARICOM Secretariat located here in Guyana. Official communication was made with CARICOM in light of the April 6 decision of the Elections Commission that it would be prudent to have the Caribbean Community involved in the planned National Recount; not to supervise as previously approved, but to validate the process,” the Chronicle’s article stated.
It added: “Outside of GECOM’s High and Cowan Streets Head office, Commissioner Vincent Alexander and Commissioner Sase Gunraj, in disclosing that GECOM has officially communicated with CARICOM, agreed that the presence of a high-level CARICOM team would be different from that of a regular Elections Observation Mission (EOM). GECOM’s Public Relations Officer (PRO) Yolanda Ward, when contacted by the Guyana Chronicle, confirmed the position taken by the Elections Commission.” See full Guyana Chronicle article at http://guyanachronicle.com/2020/04/15/gecom-goes-back-to-caricom
