Businessman Ronald Bulkan is among the new candidates onboard opposition coalition A Partnership for National Unity (APNU).
Other businessmen on-board are Charles Ceres, SAV Paul, Ali Majeed Mazarool, and Morris Wilson. Also on the party’s list of candidates are agriculturalists Dr Kenneth Sealey and Dr. Vernon Mc Pherson along with accountants Junior Garett and Jaipaul Sharma. Attorneys Michael Sommersall and Trenton Lake are also onboard in addition to Management consultant Dr Karen Cummings, Sandra Jones, UG lecturer, Gentian Ann Miller, Gem Ann Roberts, Gulab Bulkan, Mimi Fernandes, Nickola Dalrymple, Shondel Hope, Belinda Harris and Mark Walkes.
Also on the APNU list of candidates is its leadership team which includes university lecturer Dr Rishee Thakur and conservationist Sydney Allicock, Anthony Vieira, Dion Abrams, Tabitha Sarabo, Nicole Telford, Keith Scott, Vaughn Phillips, Desmond Trotman and Annette Ferguson. Other members of the team include party leader Robert Corbin, former finance minister Carl Greenidge, Dr George Norton, Volda Lawrence, James Bond, Bishwaishwar ‘Cammie’ Ramsaroop, Dawn Hastings, Africo Selman, Deborah Backer, Christopher Jones, Cheryl Sampson, Basil Williams, Amna Ally and Ganesh Mahipaul.
APNU, in a release indicated, that the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has approved their lists of 459 names. The party has 327 lists of candidates for the regional elections; 45 for the Geographic Constituency Elections and 87 names were put up for the National top-Up list. The party indicated that it selected its candidates “CEGGO principle” —Com-petence, Ethnicity, Gender, Geographical, Generational and Occupational diversity.
According to APNU, on Nomination Day, it submitted Lists of Candidates to contest all of the ten Regional Democratic Councils, all ten Geographic Constituencies and the National Top-Up List for the National Assembly of the Parliament. “After the submission, GECOM requested APNU to remedy, during the statutory period provided for this purpose, a few defects, which, they had identified,” the release said, explaining that the original of the two photocopies of the supporting Nomination Signatories documents which were submitted for each of the 21 Lists were requested and delivered. In addition, APNU explained that some of the candidates who appeared on APNU Lists of Candidates were disqualified since their names appeared on Lists of other parties submitted earlier. This included 5 persons from Region 8, and one
person each from Regions 2 and 7.
