CARICOM ready to assist in recount process – PM Keith Rowley

(Guyana Chronicle) NOTWITHSTANDING Sunday’s court ruling in relation to the role of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) in supervising a recount of the ballots cast in the March 2, 2020 regional and general elections, Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley of Trinidad and Tobago says the regional body is ready to assist in the process, once called upon.

Rowley, along with chair of CARICOM, Prime Minister Mia Mottley of Barbados, Prime Minister of St Vincent and the Grenadines, Ralph Gonsalves, Prime Ministers Roosevelt Skerrit of Dominica, and Keith Mitchell of Grenada, visited Guyana several days after the March 2, 2020 elections, with the aim of assisting at the arrival at a resolution to the impasse that resulted from the polls.

Thereafter, an agreement was signed by President David Granger and Opposition Leader as well as CARICOM Secretary General, Irwin La Rocque for a recount of the ballots cast at the polls. A technical team from CARICOM arrived to supervise the process; however, based on legal advice the team’s visit was cut-short. In addition, the process was hampered by an injunction which was filed in the courts, blocking the recount.

Rowley told the Trinidad media, on Monday, that in the agreement signed between Jagdeo and President Granger and the Secretary General of CARICOM, there was “opportunity for misrepresentation” and according to him, persons seized that opportunity.

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Source: CARICOM TODAY