Person’s complaining about the Guyana Election Commission’s Local Government Election (LGE) education programme are “seeking to whitewash their own deficiencies,” according to chairman of the election management body Dr Steve Surujbally.
Surujbally made the statement while speaking at a meeting held with the 71 Returning Officers (ROs) and their clerks at the Georgetown Club yesterday. The polls, which have not been held since 1994, are to be run off on March 18 in 62 Neighbourhood Dem-ocratic Councils (NDCs) and the nine Municipalities.
“Today’s paper, yesterday’s paper, we even have a corner in some of the papers talking about local government. We have 15 elements that we are constantly promoting and projecting to this nation, yet there are
