Elections inquiry hearings set for early November – AG

The Elections CoI will be facilitated in the botton flat of this Middle Street, Georgetown building. (SN file photo)

Hearings in the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the March 2020 general and regional elections are set to commence in the first week of November and approximately six months have been set for completion after which a report will be handed over to President Irfaan Ali.

“The oral hearing will begin in the first week of November and is expected to go into December until all the relevant witnesses have been committed to give their testimony and be cross- examined……The time schedule fixed for the purpose of the completion by the Commission is approximately six months within which the report should be delivered to the President,” Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs, Anil Nandall told Stabroek News yesterday.

Nandall said since the Commissioners were appointed,  premises situated at the bottom flat of the former Globe Trust building at 92 Middle Street, Georgetown, have been rented and equipped to facilitate the CoI.