The Private Sector Commission (PSC) has called on Chair of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) Justice (Ret’d) Claudette Singh to pronounce on the election body’s preparedness to hold local government polls, while calling the potential involvement of elections officials who have been charged with misconduct in office “unacceptable.”
In a statement issued yesterday, the PSC urged Singh to “speak out and speak plainly about the action being taken to put right all that has gone wrong in GECOM and to do it quickly.”
One of those things which have “gone wrong,” according to the private sector body, is the fact that senior officials of GECOM, including the Chief Election Officer Keith Lowenfield, District Four Returning Officer Clairmont Mingo, and a number of other officials are charged before the courts with “misconduct in public office”.
