The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) Chairman, retired Justice James Patterson, has informed the commission’s Legal officer, Excellence Dazzell, that he has no confidence in her.
In a detailed June 4th memorandum, which was signed by Patterson and seen by Stabroek News, Dazzell is accused of having failed to accurately convey GECOM’s position to the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) during a pretrial review (PTR) for the no-confidence motion cases that could see early polls being held.
“Yours was to request of the court additional time for submissions to be made. You, however, attended the PTR and declared that the Commission would be making no submissions. You also failed to mention to the court that the Commission had retained Senior Counsel Mr. Stanley Marcus, aforesaid. You also had a special mandate to further explain the reason for his absence. This you did not do,” the two-page memo reads.
