The conduct of the recently held elections for Toshaos and village councils has shown various anomalies and discrepancies, says the Amerindian Peoples Asso-ciation (APA).
The APA Executive Committee held its first statutory meeting for the year from May 7-11 and noted that it had received reports which revealed that there was “no uniformity of a process in the conduct of elections, no uniformity in the eligibility criteria for persons running for office, and the promotion of and campaigning on behalf of a particular candidate or candidates by the Minister of Amerindian Affairs and regional officers, among others.”
The APA’s Executive Committee Meeting is
