Nominees for Gecom chair should be non-partisan, WPA says

Executive member of the Working People’s Alliance (WPA) Dr David Hinds yesterday accused Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo of willfully submitting nominees who are politically aligned for the Gecom Chair with the aim of forcing President David Granger to appoint someone of his own choosing.

“The PPP is playing politics with everything it does and our view in the WPA is that the PPP is putting forward these lists in a very provocative way because they want to push the President to unilaterally appoint. They keep hammering at that… so what they are doing is that they are giving him lists that he