Youths need to understand importance of elections

Young people are very cynical when it comes to elections; they don’t think it actively affects them and that is what we are trying to show them,” visiting voting rights expert Marcia Johnson-Blanco said on Monday.

Johnson-Blanco, a Linden-born American, is Co-Director of the Lawyers’ Committee Voting Rights Project and Adjunct Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Centre.

Ahead of a fund raising dinner on Monday to support the work of the Guyanese Women’s Roundtable (GWR), Johnson-Blanco expressed her joy to