Georgetown: Chief Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire refused attorney at law and political commentator, Christopher Ram’s request for an order to stop the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) from continuing its now four-day old house-to-house registration process.
The injunction was against the registration process, which commenced last Saturday, was filed by Ram.
Ram asked the High Court to issue a conservatory order prohibiting GECOM from continuing the ongoing House to House registration exercise, an order compelling GECOM to hold elections before September 18th and a declaration that the exercise is in violation of the Constitution of Guyana and an order by the Caribbean Court of Justice.
During an initial hearing in Chambers, the Chief Justice denied the first order to block the registration while the second order to compel GECOM to name a date for elections was withdrawn.
One of Ram’s lawyers, Anil Nandlall, said that the Chief Justice agreed that elections should be held by September 18, 2019.
In refusing the first order, however, Nandlall explained that the Chief Justice informed the Attorneys that “we [the applicants] have not satisfied her that there is enough evidence to show that GECOM is not acting to complete this process and hold elections within that timeframe.”
The September 18 deadline was derived from the CCJ’s orders which referred to the constitutional three-month timeline for the holding of an election after the passage of a No-Confidence motion.
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