Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr Roger Luncheon yesterday disclosed that government has requested international observer missions to extend their stay here in order to monitor the periods before and after the May 11 general elections and the Carter Center has also been invited.
At this post-Cabinet press briefing yesterday, Luncheon announced that government is pursuing efforts “to have the presence of electoral observer missions long before E Day…and extended well beyond that day too.” He disclosed that government has written several international electoral observers, namely the United Nations, CARICOM, the Organisation of American States, UNASUR and the Carter Center among others. The Carter Center which under former US President Jimmy Carter played a pivotal role in securing sweeping electoral reforms for the landmark 1992 elections has not observed recent polls here.
Other bodies written to are the UK branch of the Commonwealth Parlia-mentary Association, the Organisation of
