Elections commissioners mum on readiness for local gov’t polls

Mahmood Shaw

Elections commissioners are shying away from pronouncing on the readiness of the Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom) to hold local government polls.

Queries to members of the commission were directed to Chairman Dr Steve Surujbally, in light of the ruling party’s announcement last week that the government-nominated representatives had indicated that Gecom was not ready for the polls.

“We took a decision that whoever wants to know about Gecom’s readiness will write the commission