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15th June – 20th June Quotes

15th June – 20th June Quotes

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Senior Counsel Ralph Ramkarran

“GECOM is required by law to make a declaration. Not to do so would be an egregious violation of the Constitution, the Representation of the People Act and the Recount Order, all of which provide that a declaration be made. Parliament cannot now be recalled or constituted and the Government would not be able to continue in office except by dictatorial fiat. There would be no legal way out of the constitutional no man’s land that would emerge.”

RALPH RAMKARRAN 

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tara-singh“Lowenfield, Mingo, and Myers, along with elements of the PNCR cabal, have succeeded in crushing the moral and social fabric of Guyanese society. Their imbedded culture of lies, deception, and venality continues to suck others into this cesspool. The wounds that they are inflicting upon the nation will take decades to repair.”

DR TARA SINGH

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christopher-ram“There is a lot resting on the shoulders of the GECOM commissioners, and they need to put political differences aside and put Guyana first. But with Granger rests the opportunity and the duty to place the national interest over partisan interest.”

CHRISTOPHER RAM

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irfaan“So it is very important we are able to move forward in implementing that manifesto. So there is no stepping back from our manifesto. There is no stepping back from the targets we have in that manifesto. For us, it is a contractual relationship between us and every single Guyanese, because they placed their confidence in us by voting for us, based on that manifesto,”

DR IRFAAN ALI

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Senior Counsel Ralph Ramkarran

“If the recount proves that the results are not credible, as alleged, and Ms. Singh cannot use it to make a declaration, or is urged by some Commissioners to take such a reckless course, then Mr. Lowenfield’s declaration after the initial count would also be equally not credible because it was based on a count of the same votes. It would be the ultimate contradiction to decline to make a declaration on the recount results, but make one on the Lowenfield declaration. Logic suggests that Mr. Lowenfield’s conclusion on the recount has to apply equally to the count on which his declaration is based.”

RALPH RAMKARRAN 

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tara-singh“Would Guyana, which has remarkably witnessed two daring attempts at electoral fraud in 3 months, create a precedent for electoral rigging in other Caricom and Commonwealth countries? If this materialises, it’s possible that, in the future, any political party that loses an election could choose to walk on the same path.”

DR TARA SINGH

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christopher“The World Court will soon be engaged in our long-festering issue with Venezuela. Our differences should end at our borders, and both President-elect Irfaan Ali and outgoing President Granger, as nationalists, must both work towards the preservation of our sovereignty and territorial wholeness.”

CHRISTOPHER RAM

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irfaan“So, yes, you will see a holistic strategy that will bring relief to people, that will bring relief to businesses, that will bring relief to our economy, and that would inject resources in our economy,”

DR. IRFAAN ALI

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gaskin“The claim that vast numbers of disciplined services ballots were deliberately not stamped, and therefore rejected, is a case in point. The so-called intermixing stations are known, and it is a fairly simple task to sum up all the unstamped rejected ballots in those stations to support the allegation. This, however, was not done and the ominous suggestion was left to torment the minds of the men and women responsible for the defence and protection of our country and its citizens.”

DOMINIC GASKIN

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senior-counsel-ralph-ramkarran“If the Chair of GECOM, Justice Claudette Singh, accepts the uninvited and ultra vires opinion of the CEO of GECOM, Keith Lowenfield, that the results of the recount are not credible and that by his account, only 185,000 of the 460,000 votes case are credible, Ms. Singh then faces a dilemma. First the embarrassment. GECOM is trashing its own elections, which it conducted and which Justice Singh has said was free, fair and credible. With the known systems in place, impersonation is almost impossible. Yet GECOM allowed most of the 460,000 voters, less 180,000, to impersonate dead and migrated people.”

RALPH RAMKARRAN 

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tara-singh“Recognising the danger of this PNCR position, Caricom Ambassador to OAS, Noel Lynch, says that Caricom cannot afford to have an anti-democratic state in the community. And incoming Caricom Head, Prime Minister of St Vincent and the Grenadines, Hon Ralph Gonsalves, was more forceful when he said the government must be declared on the basis of the recount, and if there are alleged irregularities, these could be raised via an election petition.”

DR TARA SINGH

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christopher“Granger must rest assured that all the young people whose voices came to the fore were fighting not for the PPP/C, but for democracy. One thing that now seems certain is: screw up, and the electorate will not hesitate to remove you.
The impending end of the electoral cycle solves only one of our country’s problems. We still have to deal with the coronavirus, and now we are told that our Treasury is empty.”

CHRISTOPHER RAM

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irfaan“The strategy has a financial aspect, an economic aspect, a social aspect, a health aspect, a transition aspect as to how we will transition to the reopening of the economy; and a support aspect at the household level, at the community level, at the business level and at the level of the economy.”

DR. IRFAAN ALI

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gaskin“The claims of fraud were grossly exaggerated and, unfortunately, designed to fool party supporters, who had placed their faith in the coalition, into believing that there was actual evidence of serious elections rigging by the PPP-C.”

DOMINIC GASKIN

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sharma“The Justice For All Party was formed by myself and wife many years ago with one main fundamental truth, to highlight the struggles and to fight for the improvement of life for the poor and voiceless Guyanese.”

CHANDRANARINE SHARMA

SAVITREE SINGH SHARMA

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tara-singh“Many critics have said it, and I repeat it here: The PNCR has never won free and fair elections in Guyana, and will never so do in the near future because of its bullyism, self-serving run-away corruption, ineptitude, fiscal recklessness, and visionlessness.”

DR TARA SINGH

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irfaan“We should be able to have that declaration (of a winner) on June 16, so that our country can move forward; so that our people can move forward; and so that the political environment can allow some sort of ease, not only for Guyanese, but for investors and for everyone who are stakeholders in this,”

DR. IRFAAN ALI

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gaskin“To her credit, the Chairperson of the Guyana Elections Commission then issued very clear instructions to Mr. Lowenfield to submit a report for consideration by the Commission using the results of the recount. Needless to say, another move to the court has been made and this report, from which a final declaration should have resulted, will now have to await the outcome of yet another tedious challenge.”

DOMINIC GASKIN

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asha“He will have my support and I’m going to work with all political parties that are improving our nation going forward. I urge the public and the population to accept that the recount results are valid and have shown who has won the elections. I urge them to keep calm and I urge non-violence on the way forward,”

DR ASHA KISSOON

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anil“I’m not entertaining anything about Constitution being defeated in relation to what these people are doing. They have a problem, a fundamental problem in their brain when it comes to obeying the law and obeying the Constitution; and they have put this nation into mental turmoil and anguish over words in the Constitution and that is a fundamental difficulty,0

ANIL NANDLALL

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tara-singh“He and his sponsors hope that his voodoo mathematics would scare the PPPC and other political parties into submission and acceptance of the need for fresh elections.
The PPPC received 233,336 valid votes, the PNCR coalition got 217,920, while the smaller parties got a combined total of 9,000 votes. These are the real figures (based on SORs), and not those doctored by Lowenfield. The Commission has to make its declaration on these figures.”

DR TARA SINGH

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irfaan“We are hoping that with all the voices globally – the regional voices, the international voice, the sane voices – that good sense will prevail [and] that we can get past these elections and we can move towards building our country. We can move towards bringing meaningful changes and meaningful measures that will take our fellow Guyanese out of the current situation they find themselves in,”

DR. IRFAAN ALI

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gaskin“In the end the CARICOM team delivered its report, endorsing the elections and the results of the recount, only to have it rejected by the Coalition in favour of a devious piece of reasoning by Chief Elections Officer Keith Lowenfield.”

DOMINIC GASKIN

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hess“We are waiting on the elections results for the presidency. The general elections commission [Guyana Elections Commission], hopefully if not today, in the next few days, will announce the new government. And at that time Exxon and our joint venture will work closely with them to get the development plan for Payara approved,”

JOHN HESS

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ANUG Chairman and Attorney-at-Law, Timothy Jonas

“I believe that individual (Granger) has hurt his party, lied to his followers and disgraced the office. I think a lot of work needs to be done in APNU…To the 45 per cent APNU supporters, I am saying to you that you have a right to a say and the fact is, your leaders have not been honest with you. Mr Ali has won these elections. The PPP have won this election,”

TIMOTHY JONAS

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