Welcoming President Donald Ramotar’s announcement of May 11, 2015 as the date for general elections, the US, UK and Canada yesterday urged that improvements be made to the electoral process here, including equitable access by all parties to the media.
Access to the state media has long been a sore point for the opposition parties, who have complained that they are shut-out from the state media and it is highly biased in favour of the PPP.
In a joint statement yesterday, outgoing British High Commissioner to Guyana Andrew Ayre, Chargé d’Affaires at the U.S. Embassy here Bryan Hunt and Canadian High Commissioner to Guyana Dr. Nicole Giles welcomed the announcement of elections and noted that the polls are a critical first-step towards the return of a fully functioning Parlia-ment. Both the United Kingdom and the US had called for elections to be held after Ramotar had suspended Parliament on November 10, 2014.
In their statement, the three diplomats said that they note the “great strides” made by Guyana during the 2011 general and regional elections. They noted that the
