Granger’s selection shuts AFC out of Gecom

While congratulating Sandra Jones on her selection to serve as an opposition-nominated member of the Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom), the AFC yesterday accused Opposition Leader David Granger of closing the door on broader representation on the body.

“It was the [AFC’s] hope that with the new national dispensation, where the good people of Guyana have conferred the privilege of leadership and management on the joint opposition, that the broader representation of the opposition parliamentary parties in Gecom would have been reflected,” AFC Chairman Khemraj Ramjattan told a party news conference.

“The AFC notes that the selection departs from the agreed principle, which we openly stated and which was articulated not only by the AFC but also members of other political parties, including Aubrey Norton of the PNC and David Hinds of the WPA. It is indeed unfortunate that a