CARICOM team to commence national recount with Region four

Georgetown: The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has agreed to commence the recount of votes from all administrative regions in Guyana on Monday.

The Independent High-Level Mission (from left): Ms Angela Taylor, Chief Electoral Officer, Barbados; Mr Anthony Boatswain, former Finance Minister, Grenada; Ms Francine Baron, Chair of the Team and former Attorney General and Foreign Minister, Dominica; Ms Fern Nacis-Scope, Chief Elections Officer, Trinidad and Tobago; Ms Cynthia Barrow-Giles, Senior Lecturer, Department of Government, UWI.

It was also agreed that they will start with ballots from Region Four which is Guyana’s largest voting district.

The Commission met with a high-level CARICOM delegation on Sunday to work out the modalities of that recount, and the extent of the CARICOM team’s supervisory role in this process. Among those modalities is that Region Four will be the first district to be counted.

Barbados Prime Minister and CARICOM Chair, Mia Mottley had said that the Independent High Level Team from CARICOM will be chaired by Francine Baron, former Attorney General and Foreign Minister; and comprise Mr. Anthony Boatswain, former Minister of Finance of Grenada, and Ms. Cynthia Barrow-Giles, Senior Lecturer in Department of Government of University of the West Indies.

They will also be accompanied by the two chief elections officers from Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago.