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What is clear throughout this saga is that the ruling APNU coalition does not want to know the real results and have hidden behind an array of excuses for the delays, including the fragile health of its officials, interference from the opposition parties, interference from international observers and interference from Canada’s High Commissioner in Guyana who is accused of overstepping her bounds by attempting to provide unsolicited advice.

https://thecaribbeancamera.com/guyana-votes-and-a-frustra…/…

Hypocrisy at its worst.

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Former Member

Burnham

Hoyte

Granger

See de pattern ?

3/24/208:50 AM

Former Member

What are these numbers telling us? Source -the SOPs issued to the CEO of GECOM by his POs.

For example – in Mon Repos/Good Hope/Lusignan there were some 13,556 persons on the voters’ list but only 75% or 10,161 persons actually voted. Among those 10,161 persons, 93% or 9,451 voted for the PPPC while a paltry 580 persons or 6% voted for the APNU.

The graph publish is sourced from the SOPs shared by Keith Lowenfield to his commissioners

3/24/209:15 AM

Former Member

Guyana votes and a frustrated nation remains on edge

By The Caribbean Camera Inc. on March 21, 2020

By Govind Hinds

**Caricom Chairman Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley visits the Caricom Secretariat**

Guyanese went to the polls on March 2 last and as of March 17, the official winner is yet to be declared by the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) which has vigorously asserted its sovereignty and control over every aspect of the electoral process.

Both the ruling APNU coalition and the opposition PPP have claimed victory. The APNU administration has held a number of celebratory events but has not been able to swear in their presidential candidate.

There is also the alleged plot of shadowy Russian hackers hired by the opposition to compromise GECOM’s elections system which turned out to be an Excel spreadsheet on a flash drive.

At the heart of the issue are the fears of the PNC, the main party that forms the APNU coalition and historically the political representative of the Afro Guyanese tribe. The PNC party loyalist views this election as an existential struggle for Afro Guyanese and a struggle between good and evil and where they believe that God is on their side.

The PNC faithful view the opposition PPP, the political representative of the Indo Guyanese tribe, as utterly corrupt and responsible for the deaths of hundreds of young Black men caught up in a narco industry that flourished under their watch.

The PNC hardliners believe that if they lose power, it will be a dark day not only for their tribe but all of Guyana. It is with this narrative, that the PNC deep state desperately clings to power and its members that run GECOM will attempt to complete the verification process and declare their winner according to its rules.

There is the added variable of the coronavirus crisis with four cases announced in Guyana and one fatality. How this unfolding health crisis affects the coming events is unknown. The government has announced sweeping new measures that have closed Guyana’s borders and provide the health authorities and police services the ability to quarantine suspected patients and dispose of deceased person’s bodies and any property to stop the spread of the virus.

The silver lining is in 2020 and much of the electorate have evolved beyond the race-based views of their parents. The great majority of Guyanese have persons of all ethnicities in their families and many are of mixed heritage. Both the APNU coalition and the PPP have persons of all races in their executive ranks and both are inclusive. The reality is that regardless of which party forms government, the cabinet will be an inclusive one. The emergence of bright young politicians representing new parties has attracted the attention of electors who wish to see more these progressive voices in their government. But Guyana has to make it past the current stalemate and put into office the government that reflects the will of the people.

Let us do a quick recap of where Guyana is at this stage. The poll results of nine of the ten regions were successfully verified and the results declared. The final and largest region, Region 4, that includes Georgetown and the coastal areas, still has to be verified and the final results declared. Every international observer has found the verification process of Region 4 lacking in transparency where the supporting Statement of Polls could not be physically examined and verified. Intent on declaring victory and swearing in their President, APNU was stopped by an injunction filed by the opposition PPP in the Supreme Court. The resulting Chief Justice’s ruling was clear: the GECOM must complete the verification process with transparency and with observers present. The process was restarted at a new venue where the Statement of Polls (SOPs) were displayed briefly on a makeshift cardboard screen with limited resolution and poor visibility. Most of the major international observers walked out in disgust at the process and the opposition immediately filed an injunction to invalidate any declared results.

In this moment of crisis, President Granger showed tremendous courage and reached out to Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley for CARICOM’s assistance in overseeing a total recount of all ballots in all regions. Mottley demonstrated strong leadership and mobilized a High Level Team of five experts that included the Chief Elections Officers of Trinidad and Tobago and Barbados who were on the ground within 24 hours and ready to oversee the straightforward task of counting ballots, box by box. The President’s vote recount initiative was frustrated by GECOM officials and has been officially challenged by a legal injunction filed by the PNC. This is mutiny against the Commander-in-Chief who has been chastised by his lieutenants for overstepping his authority in requesting assistance from PM Mottley and CARICOM.

To quote the official Caricom release on the frustrating situation, “A court order issued on 17 March 2020, granted an injunction restraining GECOM from recounting any ballots of the General and Regional Elections of 2 March 2020, and set aside “any agreement between the President of Guyana and the Leader of the Opposition and or any agreement between the Guyana Elections Commission and the Caribbean Community.

“The Caribbean Community has no other choice but to withdraw the High Level Team. It is clear that there are forces that do not want to see the votes recounted for whatever reason. Any Government which is sworn in without a credible and fully transparent vote count process would lack legitimacy.”

This is where Guyana finds itself, well beyond the 15 day period recommended by the Guyana constitution for a final declaration of election results. This injunction will be heard on Friday and until then the nation remains on a knife’s edge.

Ugly words are being spoken. Old tribal divisions have resurfaced and the demons of hate are feasting on the darkest fears of both tribes. The ballot boxes remain chained in shipping containers and are being vigilantly guarded by police and unnamed citizens round the clock.

The nation remains divided between all of the opposition parties and the international community who are unified in their criticism of GECOM and have called for sanctions on any illegitimate government. The deep state PNC are demanding that all foreign observers including Caricom, remove themselves and let the GECOM body conclude the electoral process as it sees fit with the result accepted by the international community.

This battleground is being dominated by constitutional legal experts on both sides and a judiciary that has thus far demonstrated its commitment to upholding the rule of law.

Let us let the lawyers do the fighting and may justice and democracy prevail and Guyanese receive the government they voted for.

3/24/209:26 AM

Former Member

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NEIL BOSTON DOES NOT REPRESENT GECOM

I’ve observed several news reports which state that Neil Boston is the Attorney-at-Law representing the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM).

This is inaccurate. He appears for the Chief Elections Officer, a separate legal entity but a creature of GECOM.

His views, therefore, do not reflect those of the Commission, consisting of six Commissioners and a Chairman.

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3/24/2010:08 AM

Former Member

Is it me eyes ?

GECOM run by Afro riggersPolice all a dem Afros threatening people, media and observersGranger join Burnham and Hoyte

All de judges are Afros Volda spray up de courts and GECOM and Artha Chung etc and she too Afro me need fuh change me glass

Dem wicked people wrongful giving Afro bad name. Kulie Na live in Guyana ?

3/24/2010:33 AM

Former Member

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3/24/2010:35 AM

Former Member

Dat cancer man badder dan he guru Burnham. Guyan would be better if Cancer tek him ova Thanks fuh posting de poster bai granger Dicktator

pray fuh Cancer declare he invalid and people votes valid. Count de blasted votes ! Tell dictator dat he is like Cancer to democracy

he he hehe he he

3/24/2010:37 AM

Former Member

Tom posted:
Dat cancer man badder dam burhman. Guyan would be better if Cancer tek him ova

Bai Taam, you baad like ah rass. You nah hole back.

3/24/2010:41 AM

Former Member

Me piss off now rass. Let he skont dead wid Cancer. He skont better remember what middle people do Saddam and Gaddafi. Dem wuss dan daag

3/24/2010:43 AM

Former Member

Tom posted:
Me piss off now rass. Let he skont dead wid Cancer.

You mean you nah want koko beah buss out on he too?

3/24/2010:48 AM

Former Member

Ko Ko Beah on he goadie

he type cancer does buss pun throat, dem does pass Shyte from dem mouth. Dat SOB holding up people vote from counting and mocking de whole world. Merika going to buss he goadie

3/24/2010:49 AM

Former Member

3/24/2011:53 AM

Former Member

A Country’s Future as World’s Fastest-Growing Economy Dims

Kevin Crowley and Peter Millard

BloombergMarch 24, 2020

A Country’s Future as World’s Fastest-Growing Economy Dims

(Bloomberg) -- When Exxon Mobil Corp. came to Guyana, the U.S. oil giant brought with it the promise of extraordinary economic growth. Now the tiny South American country is embroiled in a bitter battle over who might control that wealth just as the crude starts to flow.

In November, the International Monetary Fund gave Guyana the nod as the world’s fastest growing economy on the strength of Exxon’s oil finds. Since then, a fight for political control has led to a disputed election that’s spurring calls for international sanctions as a price rout subverts the nascent oil boom and a killer virus settles in.

Together, the three events are spurring rising concern over the future of both Guyana and Exxon within a nation politically split along sharp racial lines. The danger: With the government’s legitimacy at issue, Guyana risks limiting its oil riches and becoming another Venezuela, a neighboring country that’s an economic and humanitarian disaster zone.

“This is the first step of the oil curse,” said Schreiner Parker, the vice president for Latin America at consultant Rystad Energy, citing the political clash. ”The first thing that you can do wrong has been done wrong.”

President David Granger is accused of miscounting votes to stay in office and fighting a recount even after the U.S. and regional groups said the March 2 vote was flawed. Diplomats from the U.S., European Union, U.K. and Canada recently quit an attempted recount, saying the process wasn’t credible.

They warned in a joint statement that Guyana, a nation with fewer people than Columbus, Ohio, risks “isolation” from the international community as a result. “The individuals who seek to benefit from electoral fraud and form illegitimate regimes will be subject to a series of consequences from the United States,” U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on March 17.

Sanctions Push

A spokesman for Granger said there is “no evidence” of fraud in the election, and that recount was blocked by the courts not the president. But Granger’s challenger, Bharrat Jagdeo, said his supporters won’t recognize Granger as president, “and we will not participate in the parliament.” Instead, they will work with the international community and push for sanctions.

“Just when we thought we were moving forward as a country, this happens and taints us for years.” Jagdeo said in a telephone interview.

Exxon, meanwhile, continues to see Guyana as its golden ticket in tough times, with billions of barrels of oil at play.

The company is accelerating drilling at a cost that remains profitable even after the biggest price crash since the 1980s, and its partner, New York-based Hess Corp., said in January it expected to sell its first cargo of oil from Guyana this month. Output from the project will escalate in coming months to 120,000 barrels a day, while Exxon has forecast it will produce at least 750,000 barrels a day by 2025.

“We are invested in a long-term, mutually beneficial relationship with the people of Guyana,” Exxon said in an emailed statement.

The sheer size of the oil reserves -- pegged at around 8 billion barrels -- suggests that Guyana’s annual gross domestic product, now sitting at about $4 billion, will expand to about $15 billion by 2024, according to IMF estimates. This at a time when the average income in Guyana is just $385 a month.

It’s a level of newfound wealth that’s served to widen the split between Granger’s People’s National Congress and Jagdeo’s People’s Progressive Party.

“People are suspicious and fed up on both sides,” said Nicholas Deygoo, president of the Chamber of Commerce, speaking by telephone from Georgetown, the country’s capital.

Gavin Singh, a Guyana-based investment banker, said the people he talks with are both “scared and concerned.” The Guyanese are “a resilient people,” he added. “We’ve been through hard times before. As much as people are concerned, they’re also hopeful. They just want this to be over with, whatever the outcome.”

Guyana -- with about 780,000 people -- is Exxon’s second-biggest growth project after the Permian Basin in the U.S., and the first group of offshore wells are profitable even after the biggest price rout since the 1980s, according to energy consultancy Wood Mackenzie Ltd. While Exxon was one of the first oil majors to announce spending cuts in response to the price crash, including in the Permian, its Guyana operation is expected to keep moving forward.

Exxon’s partner, Hess Corp., excluded Guyana from its cuts to capital spending earlier this month, indicating the project will continue as planned despite the crash in oil prices.

“For a project of this magnitude, and considering it is deepwater, it is one of the best,” said Marcelo de Assis, the head of Latin American upstream research at Wood Mackenzie. “Guyana is still attractive for investment. The external environment should curb any increase in government take. This is not a time to toughen up fiscal terms.”

Still, if the domestic political crisis drags on at a time when a global pandemic and a price war are forcing companies across the world to their knees, Exxon could quickly run into problems with paying for its oil production, according to Rystad’s Parker. The entire offshore oil industry is struggling with how to staff offshore facilities amid the coronavirus pandemic, and Guyana’s remote location makes this issue even more difficult, he said.

Guyana has had four cases of the virus, according to the World Health Organization. In response it’s advised limiting social contact and closed some facilities.

There was “real panic” when the first case surfaced, according to Singh, with lines forming outside of supermarkets and pharmacies. Now “we just want our lives to go back to some sense of normality,” Singh said. “To be able to shop and look at each other with a sense of security.”

(Adds Pompeo comments in the sixth parragph. A previous version of this story corrected the political parties in the 13th paragraph)

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3/24/2011:55 AM

Former Member

Never forget....

#whoVexVex
#strongerTOGETHER
#longWalktoFreedom

3/24/2012:01 PM

Former Member

3/24/2012:03 PM

TolaSenior Member

Tom posted:
Dat cancer man badder dan he guru Burnham. Guyan would be better if Cancer tek him ova Thanks fuh posting de poster bai granger Dicktator
pray fuh Cancer declare he invalid and people votes valid. Count de blasted votes ! Tell dictator dat he is like Cancer to democracy
he he hehe he he

Holy shit Tom by the lake, are you for real ? Wishing God to inflect pain on another person ? Bhai, I hope some day you don't catch a serious illness and ask people to pray for you.

3/24/2012:12 PM

Former Member

He skont is a burden to Mother Earth. Guyana de world and Mother Earth is better off wid dat parasite

pleaee address me properly totaram

3/24/2012:17 PM

MitwahSenior Member

Tom posted:
He skont is a burden to Mother Earth. Guyana de world and Mother Earth is better off wid dat parasite
pleaee address me properly totaram

Yugi, please show Totaram's offensive post.

3/24/2012:22 PM

TolaSenior Member

Tom posted:
He skont is a burden to Mother Earth. Guyana de world and Mother Earth is better off wid dat parasite
pleaee address me properly totaram

Bhai Tom by the lake, if you represent the PPP in Guyana, the whole country might continue to become a garbage dump under the PPP.

3/24/2012:33 PM

Former Member

British Govt. warns Guyana of serious consequences over “non-credible” elections results

By News Source Guyana on March 24, 2020

In a statement this morning, British Foreign Secretary, Dominic Raab said the transition of government in Guyana should only take place in line with "transparent and democratic principles that lead to credible results".

British Govt. warns Guyana of serious consequences over “non-credible” elections results

With the Guyana Elections Commission still to declare final results from the 2nd March elections, the British Government is warning against the swearing-in of any government on the basis of “non-credible” results.

In a statement this morning, British Foreign Secretary, Dominic Raab said the transition of government in Guyana should only take place in line with “transparent and democratic principles that lead to credible results”.

He added that any government sworn in on the basis of non-credible results “will face strong international condemnation”, adding that if the situation continues to deteriorate, the international response will include a range of serious consequences for those concerned.

The statement added that the United Kingdom remains ready, along with its partners, to assist in ensuring a credible process that provides the democratic outcome that the Guyanese people deserve.

This is the second statement by the British Foreign Secretary on the elections in Guyana.

The latest statement comes just one day after the National Security Council of the US Government tweeted that the U.S. is committed to the Americas becoming the 1st fully free hemisphere and it stands with the people of Guyana “who want to protect the integrity of their democracy, maintain peace, & preserve regional stability” while the coronavirus is confronted.

The American, British, Canadian and EU representatives in Guyana have made known their concerns about the tabulation process for the election results for Region Four.

President David Granger last week initiated a recount of all votes cast but the process never got off the ground as a Court action was filed by one of the candidates from his coalition who has expressed concerns about a national recount based on an agreement between the President and Opposition Leader.

That matter is still before Guyana’s Supreme Court.

3/24/2012:53 PM

Former Member

Tola posted:
Tom posted:
He skont is a burden to Mother Earth. Guyana de world and Mother Earth is better off wid dat parasite
pleaee address me properly totaram
Bhai Tom by the lake, if you represent the PPP in Guyana, the whole country might continue to become a garbage dump under the PPP.

Totaram

Me fight fuh fairness and democracy. Me don’t represent any party. Granger is de garbage dump. Cancer should tek he rass over and save Guyana from rigging and democracy Please address me properly

3/24/2012:58 PM

ZedSenior Member

The elections were carried out fairly until the count for Region 4. Mingo tried to rig the results in favour of the Coalition. This occurred with numerous observers and ambassadors present.

If the coalition think that they won the elections, and in the face of local and international criticism and threats of sanctions, why not allow the recounting of the votes? The coalition is being two faced. Granger says he wants a recount but has his candidate launch a court action against it. Who is funding her legal team? The Coalition is. if one sees her house in South Better Hope, one will wonder where she is hiding all that money?

The whole nation is at a stand still. The virus has compounded the uncertainty and fear. Let there be an internationally supervised recount that fits within Guyanese law. By stalling, the coalition is putting its grab for power ahead of the livelihood and future of the Guyanese people. Let there be a recount!

3/24/201:38 PM

TolaSenior Member

Tom posted:
Tola posted:
Tom posted:
He skont is a burden to Mother Earth. Guyana de world and Mother Earth is better off wid dat parasite
pleaee address me properly totaram
Bhai Tom by the lake, if you represent the PPP in Guyana, the whole country might continue to become a garbage dump under the PPP.
Totaram
Me fight fuh fairness and democracy. Me don’t represent any party. Granger is de garbage dump. Cancer should tek he rass over and save Guyana from rigging and democracy Please address me properly

Bhai Tom, I would strongly suggest that you see a doctor, because your posts are as warped as you are. Fighting for fairness and democracy is one thing, but wishing death on another person from God : Bhai you are definitely warped. BTW when you gonna become Dick and Harry ?

3/24/201:53 PM

DjangoAdmin

Tom posted:
Dat cancer man badder dan he guru Burnham. Guyan would be better if Cancer tek him ova Thanks fuh posting de poster bai granger Dicktator
pray fuh Cancer declare he invalid and people votes valid. Count de blasted votes ! Tell dictator dat he is like Cancer to democracy
he he hehe he he

How many times this banna resurrecting ? the count getting larger.

3/24/201:57 PM

cainTired old hippie

He is ashamed of his past hence the name changes but he still comes back with the same nonsense. I waiting for when he comes back as.....frilly panties.

For the record, I am totally in agreement with Zed's post. He is one of the decent posters on GNI, big respect to him.

3/24/202:09 PM

Former Member

APNU/AFC GOONS destroying billboards erected last night by pro Democracy group "Guardians of Democracy" in Guyana.

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3/24/202:34 PM

MitwahSenior Member

Tola posted:
Tom posted:
Tola posted:
Tom posted:
He skont is a burden to Mother Earth. Guyana de world and Mother Earth is better off wid dat parasite
pleaee address me properly totaram
Bhai Tom by the lake, if you represent the PPP in Guyana, the whole country might continue to become a garbage dump under the PPP.
Totaram
Me fight fuh fairness and democracy. Me don’t represent any party. Granger is de garbage dump. Cancer should tek he rass over and save Guyana from rigging and democracy Please address me properly
Bhai Tom, I would strongly suggest that you see a doctor, because your posts are as warped as you are. Fighting for fairness and democracy is one thing, but wishing death on another person from God : Bhai you are definitely warped. BTW when you gonna become Dick and Harry ?

First Yugly fell into the lake and came out as Sean, who then took a dip and drowned but reincarnated as Tom.

3/24/202:37 PM

Former Member

Dave, de faster cancer wipe he put, de better fuh Guyana. Please god, even corona going to better do to wipe out the cancer dictator

he skont squatting for over two years and now he na want count de votes Cancer has to go !!!!! Dis dag ten times worse dan de odda dag Burnham

remember cancer wipe out burnham history repeating itself

3/24/202:43 PM

Former Member

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3/24/202:44 PM

Former Member

Dave posted:

Dis lady talk sheer skoant. "We will sell them oil"? Guyana can sell all the oil, no money coming to Granger and the thieves. Maybe she can sell something else that she owns, that is if there is a buyer for rotten goods.

3/24/203:18 PM

Former Member

PNC Guyana going to selling coconut oil and fu fu

he he hehe he he

3/24/203:20 PM

Former Member

Tom posted:
PNC Guyana going to selling coconut oil and fu fu
he he hehe he he

Cook up rice and plantain chips. Dry coconut will be at a premium.

3/24/203:24 PM

Former Member

he he hehe he he

dry coconut going to mek dem sing

3/24/203:26 PM

kpHonorary Member

Dave posted:

They had almost 5 years to build roads, bridges, schools, but what? they were too busy thieving , helping Volga friends and family. $5M Harmon China Affair, $18M Oil Bonus disappear in overseas account, Sugar Cane land at Wales given to PNC HACK in the USA.

They spent time planning how to divide up the OIL wealth amongst themselves. While Beverly Alert and the rest in Buxton sucking dry cane.

3/24/203:37 PM

Former Member

Dem going to eat dry coconut if granger swear in

3/24/203:57 PM

ZedSenior Member

@@Dave

It is obvious who benefits from the individuals destroying the billboards. They tried to steal the elections while the world was looking. Not very smart. When they tried to rig the numbers, they screwed that up also. Now, in broad daylight. They are destroying billboards, interfering with people’s right of free expression. They are just barefaced in moving Guyana from a free and fair election.

Their only decision left is to either accept defeat or have a recount to stave off sanctions.

People have been stocking up on foodstuff in the event the political situation deteriorates or if there is a national lockdown. After searching in six stores, I was a able to get some flour, though the price was higher. No shortage of rice as yet, though the price has gone up a bit. Looking forward to lots of cookup rice and metajee. Lots of dry coconuts in the yard.

3/24/204:06 PM

MitwahSenior Member

Mr. Zed, Please show us where you spoke out against the PPP, Benn brucking up people's shed, fruit stalls and bridges etc..

3/24/204:15 PM

Bibi HaniffaGNI Queen

Tom posted:
Dem going to eat dry coconut if granger swear in

Some of them like dry coconut. Guyana has a lot of racists and hypocrites who have no respect for the law.

3/24/205:47 PM

Former Member

Jagdeo’s Attorneys question Court’s jurisdiction to hear recount injunction matter

By News Source Guyana on March 24, 2020

Attorney Douglas Mendez who is representing PPP General Secretary Bharrat Jagdeo, joined the hearing via Skype and questioned whether the Court has the jurisdiction to even hear the matter regarding the injunction to block a recount.

Jagdeo’s Attorneys question Court’s jurisdiction to hear recount injunction matter

As the injunction case on the recount of votes for the elections continued today before Justice Franklin Holder, the matter of the Court’s jurisdiction to hear the matter took centre stage.

Mr Mendez believes the Court hearing the matter might be a violation of the Representation of the People Act.

Attorney Anil Nandlall who is also representing the interests of the PPP General Secretary explained that their position about jurisdiction is as a result of the applicant in the matter questioning the Court’s jurisdiction to demand Statements of Poll from the Guyana Elections Commission.

“They raised the Jurisdictional issue about whether the court can order the SOP, and then we countered with a jurisdictional issue and we said look, the Court at some point in time perhaps after the discovery hearing in concluding, will have to address its mind to whether it could entertain the Ulita Moore matter because that matter raises questions about a decision made by the Elections Commission”, Nandlall said.

But Attorney Mayo Robertson who is representing the applicant in the matter said if his client felt that the Court did not hold jurisdiction, the matter would not have been brought up.

“We firmly believe that this Court has jurisdiction that’s why we brought the action here in the first place” Robertson noted.

On the other hand, the Attorney for the Chief Elections Officer complained that time has been wasted in Court since the issues that have now been brought up, could have been addressed in the early stages of the hearing.

Senior Counsel Neil Boston said “if the Court does not have jurisdiction to hear Ulita Moore’s application, then why are we dealing with this issue of discovery, it would be a waste of time. If I come after the jurisdiction issue is completed and I find that I did not have jurisdiction you would have wasted all the time, on this discovery”.

With the new developments in the matter, Justice Holder has made a decision to deal with the jurisdictional matter and then move on to decide on whether or not the SOPs should be presented to the Court.

The Attorneys will now be expected to present submissions addressing the issue of jurisdiction.

3/24/206:26 PM

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Hypocrisy at its worst.

Guyana votes and a frustrated nation remains on edge

A Country’s Future as World’s Fastest-Growing Economy Dims

British Govt. warns Guyana of serious consequences over “non-credible” elections results

APNU/AFC GOONS destroying billboards erected last night by pro Democracy group "Guardians of Democracy" in Guyana.

Jagdeo’s Attorneys question Court’s jurisdiction to hear recount injunction matter

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