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The news keep evolving in protest and court proceedings followed by statement around the world- it’s difficult to keep up . 

While the pressure is mounted locally and overseas, Granger and his people refuses to put Country first. 

If they are so confident of winning this election, why hold on to power illegally. He need to address his supporters and inform them to accept the results with a recount. I am afraid, his people will resort to violence.... all because he is afraid to tell them the truth. 

FM

PPPC finally was able to get it done, despite dodging by the recipients.

One now needs to see how issues develop, perhaps by the hour.

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DAVE SENIOR MEMBER, 5 MINUTES AGO

PPP successfully serves request for recount of Region 4 results

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The opposition People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) on Friday said it was able to successfully serve its request for a recount in District Four to several Deputy Returning Officers (DROs).

The request was served just hours before the deadline for that request expired at noon today.

The PPP had to take the route of serving this request to several deputies in the face of challenges to make contact with the Returning Officer, Clairmont Mingo.

FM

Bipartisan members of U.S. Congress express deep concern about elections in Guyana

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The following statement has been issued by some members of the U.S. Congress. It was issued on the website of Representative Albio Sires from New Jersey:

(Washington, D.C.) – Today, Reps. Albio Sires (D-NJ), Eliot Engel (D-NY), Gregory Meeks (D-NY), Yvette Clarke (D-NY), and Francis Rooney (R-FL) released the following statement regarding recent events in Guyana:

We are deeply concerned about allegations of fraud in Guyana’s elections. International election observers are in agreement that the results released for region 4 could not be verified and were presented yesterday in violation of the established vote tabulation process.

Francis Rooney

We call on the election commission (GECOM) to return to the established procedure and not to declare a winner until a credible vote tabulation process has been completed.”

 

FM

Guyanese in massive protest against threat to democracy

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Huge crowds of people have gathered at various locations across the country in a civil protest against a decision by the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) to declare unverified results for the largest electoral district, Region Four (Demerara Mahaica).

Protest actions are ongoing at Herstelling, East Bank Demerara (EBD), as well as Lusignan, East Coast Demerara, and Bath  (West Coast Berbice).

INews understands that people are also picketing at Bee Hive, ECD.

Guyanese are calling for GECOM to follow the laws of the land, i.e. to have the results verified before declaration.

Already, the international community including members of the diplomatic corp. and foreign observers have labelled the process as lacking transparency and credibility.

The ABCE countries are also calling on President David Granger not to transition into a new government as it could be β€œunconstitutional”.

Stakeholders have already stated that Guyana’s democracy is being threatened and have called for international sanctions against APNU/AFC.

FM

Hey hey hey...PNC na go budge. Dem control de army and police and public service. Hey hey hey. De only ting dat will mek dem move is if all de money fram Exxon get put in wan escrow account. hey hey hey...ayoo see...real powah deh in de army and public service...not when ayoo can play loud music and drive big cyar and brive police. Hey hey hey. 

FM

Peoples Progressive Party/Civic

PRESS STATEMENT

The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) calls on all of our supporters to remain calm and act in a peaceful manner during this period.
While we understand the hurt, frustration and fear about electoral fraud being perpetuated against the Guyanese people, we have the solidarity of the international community.
Today alone, March 6, 2020, statements have emanated from: the diplomatic community in Guyana; the international election observer missions; the US State Department; the representatives of the United States of America (USA) Congress; British Parliamentarian, Barry Gardiner; The Elder, an international NGO founded by Nelson Mandela, and other international organizations, as well as local stakeholders.
They have all made it clear that as it stands results of the Elections cannot be β€œcredibly declared” and there can be no swearing in of a president since such an action would be illegal.

The PPP agrees with the international community; there can be no swearing in of a new president under the current circumstances. The Party wishes to also warn that public officers, especially constitutional office holders, facilitating such an illegal action would be complicit in the perpetuation of electoral fraud in Guyana.

The Party also agrees with the international community that there must a return to the process of verifying the results of the March 2, 2020 General and Regional Elections for Region 4, using the Statements of Polls, as required by law. This is the only process that will deliver free and fair elections and ensure that the will of the Guyanese people is not subverted. The People’s Progressive Party continues to work towards this objective.
The PPP urges our supporters to ensure that none of their actions are in contradiction with the laws of Guyana; stay home and await further guidance from the Party.

People’s Progressive Party

March 6, 2020

FM

Berbice protest: School bus, Police Officers attacked 

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Residents protesting in West Coast Berbice are calling for a fair electoral process following the declaration of Region Four votes.

The protest action resulted in the attack of Police Officers and a school bus Friday. Several policemen ran away and were subsequently rescued by residents in a moving vehicle.

One of the officers received injuries to his foot.

A school bus taking children and teachers to school was also attacked on the Bath Settlement Public Road.

Four students were reported to be injured with bruises about their bodies. They were taken to the Fort Wellington Hospital where they were treated and sent away.

A car was also set alight in Bath Settlement, where the protest action began since 09:00hrs.

Protest actions are ongoing at Number 12 Village, Cotton Tree and Bush Lot.

Sections of the road are blocked off, halting the free flow of traffic and fires are being lit.

Over in the Corentyne Region, there is a massive crowd in Canje and Tain.

 

FM

Thanks to social media and modern tech. we are seeing things that we could not see in the earlier years on elections. 

In 2015 there was exposure, but this year 2020 Elections, the movement is much stronger and there is no hiding anything anymore.

Anyways I am out of here until about 11.30 pm tonight, then I can peep in.  Be nice to each other guys

Amral
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PNC has triggered a Guyana Spring uprising!

The people are emboldened because of the presence of the international community and the prolific social media exposure beamed globally. Police and GDF brutality cannot escape the soft power of the bits and bytes!  Volda cussing has been beamed globally!

PNC.....welcome to the New Jerusalem!  You will fail!

FM

UN calls for credible elections results that reflect the will of the people

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See below statement from Ms. Mikiko Tanaka, United Nations Resident Coordinator:

We are following with concern the latest developments in Guyana.

We take note of the statements issued by international observers and Ambassadors accredited in Georgetown raising concerns regarding lack of compliance with national legal procedures and the need to resume the tabulation of results for Region 4.

We encourage the relevant Guyanese authorities to finalize the process in a manner which leaves no doubts as to the credibility of the results that reflect the will of the Guyanese people.

The United Nations calls upon all sides to act with calm, patience and in full respect of human rights, the rule of law and Guyana’s constitutional order.

 

 

FM

APNU+AFC calls on citizens to remain calm and peaceful

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See full statement below from APNU+AFC:

APNU+AFC Media Release

For immediate release

Friday, March 6, 2020

The APNU+AFC Coalition urges all Guyanese to respect the will of the people as exercised in the General and Regional Elections of Monday, March 2, 2020.

Further, the APNU+AFC Coalition calls on all Guyanese to conduct themselves in a peaceful and law-abiding manner as they go about their daily activities.

APNU+AFC implores citizens to remain calm and not to engage in any act whatsoever to disrupt national life or cause any strife or inconvenience.

APNU+AFC Coalition commends the hundreds of thousands of Guyanese who exercised their right to vote on Monday and who have remained calm and peaceful as we all await the final declaration of results by the Guyana Elections Commission.

FM

Police fire teargas at PPP supporters at Lusignan as sporadic election-related disturbances break out in Berbice, Demerara; PPP appeals for calm

 

Police firing teargas at protesters at Lusignan Village, East Coast Demerara.

Police Friday afternoon fired teargas and broke up a protest at Lusignan, East Coast Demerara.

The police action followed the burning of a utility pole that was placed across the Lusignan Public Road.

The decision by the police to disperse the crowd came after top leaders of the People’s Progressive (PPP)- Frank Anthony and Anil Nandlall- appealed to their supporters to go home.

The Railway Embankment Road was the only thoroughfare.

About five supporters of A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) were seen moving towards the PPP supporters at Lusignan but eventually they retreated.

Lusignan was not the only place that PPP supporters blocked to protest the outcome of results from the March 2,2020 general elections based on unverified results from Region 4, authorities said.

Riot squad police were on standby in a 36-seater bus, but they did not take any action until the situation became uncontrollable shortly after 4 PM.

At Cotton Tree, West Coast Berbice , residents there blocked roads with objects, but at Bath Settlement, West Coast Berbice, supporters burned tires.

At Tain Village, Corentyne, more than 1,000 persons blocked the road.

Across on the West Coast Demerara, authorities there reported that there were several road blockages at Canal Number 1, Demerara Harbour Bridge Junction, Cornelia Ida, and Bell West. At Canal Number 2, residents there burned tires. However, authorities said the protesters were gradually dispersing on their own.

Police in β€˜A’ Division, Superintendent Azore said there was no political unrest there. β€œThere is no disturbance or uprising in our division,” he said.

PPP supporters in sporadic protest in Demerara and Berbice.

Meanwhile the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) appealed to its supporters to be calm, even as its calls for properly tabulated and verified results in Region Four according to the law were attracting support from the United States, Britain, Canada, and the European Union.

β€œThe People’s Progressive Party (PPP) calls on all of our supporters to remain calm and act in a peaceful manner during this period. While we understand the hurt, frustration and fear about electoral fraud being perpetuated against the Guyanese people, we have the solidarity of the international community,” the PPP said.

International observers from the Carter Centre, Organisation of American States, European Union, and the Commonwealth have jointly called for the verification of the results in keeping with the law before the full results of the general and regional elections are declared.

The US, Britain, Canada and the European Union have warned President David Granger that if he is sworn in as President based on the results, his administration would be deemed unconstitutional.

Separately, the United States State Department issued very strong words against the Guyanese authorities who are responsible for the electoral stalemate.

The PPP  appealed to its supporters not to go on the streets and breach the law. β€œThe PPP urges our supporters to ensure that none of their actions are in contradiction with the laws of Guyana; stay home and await further guidance from the Party,” the PPP said.

FM

Who could have believe PPPC supporters will rise to this cause, it was overbearing and long over due. this will send a strong message for the future. They squat illegally in office since Dec18-2018.... and is barefaced to rig the election in the presence of local and international observers. 

Respect the constitution and don’t mess with us. 

I saw the Scrooge Cathy Hudge, making a statement calling for peace but express disappointment with the protesters as the world is watching. 
This  B!tch has no shame. 

FM
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@Former Member

I am not sure if Granger was diagnosed with Cancer or that was part of the early election drama. How could he take Chemo and still have hair on his head? How could he recover in such a short time?  I have treated people with Chemo and knows how it works and with the type he claims he has he should have lost his voice.

FM

It does add up Dond. It seems that everyone associated with the Coalition falls sick whenever they are faced with making any decisions. You have Granger then. Then there was Lowenfield having a heart attack. Then there was ole man Patto getting sick and more recently you have first Mingo and then Singh. Dem Russians proppa fvcking with the Coalition idiots. 

FM

Guyana's Granger Claims Victory as U.S. and EU Question Vote Results

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GEORGETOWN β€” Diplomats and foreign observers on Thursday questioned preliminary results of Guyana's presidential election as incumbent David Granger claimed victory and the opposition denounced fraud, setting up a showdown in the oil-rich South American nation.

The former British colony on Monday voted to choose who will oversee an oil boom that promises to be transformative for the poor country thanks to recent crude discoveries off its coast.

Opposition leaders denounced "thievery," and diplomats from the United States, the European Union, Britain and Canada said results released by the elections council for one of the country's regions were not credible.

"This is an embarrassment that this emerging oil giant has to be sitting here at this table now and speaking on the brink of a dictatorship," said Kian Jabour of opposition party A New and United Guyana. 

A disputed election could derail the country's plans to use its newfound oil wealth to spur economic development. It would fuel long-simmering ethnic tensions between the country's Afro-Guyanese and those of Indian descent, who have grown suspicious that the other is seeking to control oil revenue.

Opposition leaders said the elections commission altered results from an area called Region Four, the most populous electoral district, to give Granger, the sitting president, of the APNU-AFC coalition, a wide margin over Irfaan Ali of the opposition PPP party.

 

Former President Bharrat Jagdeo said the commission's results for Region Four did not match the sum of votes tallied in the statements of poll - the official documents that reflect voting results at each individual polling station.

"Based on our observation of today's (election's commission) proceedings at their Region 4 office, and the fact that the full count was not completed, we question the credibility of the Region 4 results," the heads of the four diplomatic missions said in a joint statement.

GRANGER CELEBRATES

The electoral commission has not yet proclaimed a winner. Representatives of the commission did not respond to requests for comment. 

In the face of the criticism, Granger gave celebratory statements to a rally of supporters on Thursday.

"We are here to serve you for the next five years," he said. "I thank you from the bottom of my heart. When the sun rises ... the president is sworn in again."

The Region Four results were also questioned by the Commonwealth Observer Group, made up mostly of former British colonies, as well as the Carter Center, founded by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and his wife and which in 1992 helped Guyana hold a free election after decades of rigged votes.

Critics had for days complained of unnecessary delays and what they called stalling tactics, including the unexpected hospitalization of a key election official.

Guyana, which has a population of less than 800,000, is expected to become a major oil producer in the coming years as a consortium of companies including Exxon Mobil Corp taps into 8 billion barrels of oil and gas off the country's coast.

The country's politics has remained divided along ethnic lines since Guyana's 1966 independence from Britain.

Granger's APNU-AFC coalition is largely made up of black Guyanese descended from African slaves while the PPP mostly represents descendants of Indian laborers who arrived in the 19th century to work on sugar plantations.

FM

Region 4 Returning Officer Mr Mingo received 1000 extra Ordinary Ballots serial no 447013 to 448012
He also received 60 packets (4 SOP in a packet for a total of 240 SOP) of SOPs for national Election and 60 Packets ( 4 SOPs in a packet for a total of 240) of SOPs for Regional elections.
In addition, he received 60 packets of tally sheets for General Election and 60 packets of tally sheets for Regional Rlection.

We will be checking to see that he accounts for these. And they will have to be reconciled with those that were used.

FM

The vast difference between the PPP members and the PNC ones. Here is Priya and Vindhi out on the road trying to calm the protestors tempers down. The PNC members would have been out on the road encouraging their supporters to mo fiah slo fiah violence.

I see black folks amongst the protestors too. So how did some here say that the PPP cannot win again because the Indian population is no longer the majority? I have been saying that not only Indians want a good life. Others do too.

FM

Reports are that Devon Subhan 18 years of Cotton tree died from injuries after police opened fire to disperse crowds of people whose protest action turned violent today. He was shot to his torso area and according to information lost alot of blood resulting in his demise.This is a sad development to the chaos that rocked the communities of west coast berbice earlier today..

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Critical teen stuck at Fort Wellington due to protests

Annuradha Sukra
Annuradha Sukra

A teenage Bush Lot Village, West Coast Berbice, girl is presently critical at the Fort Wellington Public Hospital after being shot with pellets by police, who mistook her for a protestor.

 

Jayshree Sukra told Stabroek News that her daughter, Annuradha Sukra, 19, sustained injuries to her head, chest and legs after a missile was thrown at law enforcers, who fired pellets in response. She said her daughter was heading out of a street where the incident occurred at the time. β€œShe need surgery,” the woman lamented.

However, Sukra said the hospital is afraid to transfer the young woman due to the protests on the roadway. β€œThem a send me and my husband to find out if the protest clear,” she explained

A desperate Sukra is asking whether the police can escort the ambulance to the Georgetown Public Hospital so that her daughter can receive the necessary medical attention.

FM
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The APNU+AFC on Friday night said it wants to see the swearing-in of the President β€œvery quickly” and is looking to the discharge tomorrow of a court injunction blocking the declaration of the overall results in favour of its leader David Granger.

β€œWe would like to have this matter dealt with very quickly. So in order for there to be calm, stability, restraint, we have to have the President sworn in very quickly and that his government be able to take the necessary steps to guarantee the peace, stability and security of the people of this country,” Joseph Harmon, General Secretary of APNU+AFC said in a video release.

The Region Four returning officer on Thursday declared the results of the largest electoral district without the legal process of verification and when added with the declarations from the other regions showed a win for APNU+AFC; however, the Opposition has claimed the Statements of Poll show it winning and that the results declared by the Returning Officer was heavily padded and is not credible.

The international community, including the leading developing partners in Guyana and international observers, have urged that the verification process take place, otherwise the government would be unconstitutional.

Harmon, in his statement, said after the Region Four declaration, a declaration of the overall winner should be made by the Chief Elections Officer followed by a meeting of the Guyana Elections Commission and a confirmation of those results by the Commission.

Thereafter, he explained, the chairman would then send a statement to the Chancellor of the judiciary who will then act upon that to have the Chancellor sworn in.

Harmon said the Commission should have met today to conclude those processes when it was served with an injunction on behalf of the People’s Progressive Party.

However, Harmon said the Chairman of the Elections Commission, Justice Claudette Singh, decided that she will follow what the court says and have agreed that this procedure for the swearing-in of the President will be put on hold and that the parties will go to court tomorrow at 10 a.m. at where the injunction will be discharged

β€œSo the situation has been on hold until such time that matter is discharged and we expect that will be done tomorrow,” Harmon stated.

β€œOnce that is done, it will then clear the way for the Commission to meet and for them to issue that statement which will clear the way for the President to be sworn in,” Harmon added.

The Commission is split evenly between Commissioners of the PPP and the Coalition; so in the end, the Chairman would have to make a casting vote on declaring the winner.

β€œIt is our expectation that this matter will be treated with some amount of speed…,” Harmon declared.

FM

IS THERE A LEGAL GOVERNMENT IN GUYANA AT THIS MOMENT, WELL FIRST BEFORE ELECTION APNU/AFC WAS A CARETAKER GOVERNMENT, FROM ELECTION ONWARD UNTIL A PRESIDENT IS SWORN IN, THERE IS NO FORMAL GOVERNMENT. GRANGER, RUMJAAT, HARMON OR ANYONE ELSE CANNOT PASS ORDERS.

We have to be careful ,the forces are in control they can take over the government and we have a military Rule.

K

THIS IS WHAT REALLY HAPPENED LAST NIGHT AS OBSERVER WHY WERE WE ARRESTED AND OUR PHONE TAKEN AWAY FROM US. PLEASE LOOK AT THE VERY END OF THE VIDEO- Jeany Persaud NY OBSERVER......
πŸ₯°What happened to night was madness. I WAS ARRESTED....
Someone call the ambulance because the GECOM chairperson called one of the officer wife who takes care of her and said she was not feeling good. he called her and there was no answer so he called the ambulance and he came there, we all rush upstairs to make sure that she was okay when the EMT'S went upstairs there was no answer so they start banging on the door everyone start chanting free the chairwomen THERE WAS NO ANSWER so everyone rushed upstairs start banging on the door and video taping, of course I'm in the middle of it. Everyone was pushing the door in and we ALL went in but no one was there, there was another door inside so they tried to push that door to get inside, that was madness of course, we are in the middle of everyone video taping, they push open the door, we were swept inside while we were inside it got physical so we pushed our self out of the crowd to the back where there was another door that door suddenly opened BECAUSE SOMEONE WAS COMING OUT. we saw the chairwomen, it was a lot of us, I had my camera on and we were able to video her, Anter asked her if she was okay she said no I am not feeling well I am in fear of my life and that's when the officers grabbed our phones and pushed us out of the room they start shoving people against the door to get out we backed off and lift our hands up, by then they were able to close the door and we got stuck in there then they start letting know that we broke into government property and we're under arrest so they took our phones away and proceeded to take us outside in the meanwhile the we had our hands up so they knew we are complying with them. the curtain fell and everyone was outside videoing that's why our hands was up.
The women Officer start taking statements of our names and our badges and the head guy was saying we were going down to Brickdam because we broke into government property. We did no such thing we were pushed in with the crowd to video and see if she was ok. Dr. Kanhai, Anter Narine and the other gentleman i do know his name was arrest and taken down to Brickdam police station. video's to follow. -Jeany Persaud NY Observer.

FM

Bai DG, I never expect the PNC to do the right thing so I am not surprised by their behavior. The only law those hooligans understand is the kind that is usually placed on places like Iran and Iraq etc. In the past Guyana had no real value so they were left alone to do their own thing. Democracy was restored in 1992 because Jimmy Carter has made efforts of democratic elections his life work after the White House. But now is different. Guyana is sitting on lots of oil which they have no way of harvesting themselves. The payments of that oil will have to pass through the US Federal Exchange Commission so it will be very easy to freeze those assets as the US does with other rogue countries. Only something like that or at least a threat of it will force these hooligans to do the right thing.

FM
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