Chief Election Officer (CEO) Keith Lowenfield says there is no place for political activists within the ranks of the Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom), which has embarked on a series of training programmes to ensure the availability of trained personnel for either registration or election activities.
“So those of you who may be card bearing party members, if we have any here among us today – don’t go further. Our image is sacred and we will not allow it to be contaminated with party activists among our ranks,” Lowenfield told the opening session of the two-day Training of Trainers Programme at the St Joseph High School last Saturday, according to a statement from Gecom.
He was at the time addressing an audience of approximately 200 attendees, including Registration Officers and Senior Staff of the Gecom Secretariat, whom he told that as a