Chief Election Officer Keith Lowenfield has discontinued his legal challenge to bar government-nominated members of the Guyana Elections Com-mission (GECOM) from voting on a motion to dismiss him.
When the case was called yesterday for ruling by Justice Jo-Ann Barlow, Lowenfield’s attorney, Nigel Hughes, said that the matter is no longer being pursued as “circumstances have overtaken” it, in an apparent reference to an amendment of the motion to cater for the termination of his services. Hughes informed that given the new developments, he had taken steps to file a notice of discontinuance on Lowenfield. The lawyer said, too, that an injunction that Lowenfield was also seeking against the Commission was also no longer being pursued.
Granting permission to discontinue the proceedings and discharging the interim injunction previously imposed against the Commission, Justice Barlow declared the matter ended. The developments now clear the way for GECOM to proceed with deliberations on the termination of Lowenfield’s service.
