BREAKING: Gov’t to relax curfew for recount, observers to be tested overseas

By Fareeza Haniff

Following the intervention of President David Granger, the National COVID-19 Task Force has decided to relax the 6pm to 6am curfew measures for the national recount of all votes cast on March 2, 2020, and observers who wish to return to Guyana will have to be tested before entering the country.

Well-placed sources confirmed to the News Room that the recount will be done from 8am to 6pm and this information has been passed on to the Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) Justice (rt’d) Claudette Singh.

Justice Singh had written the task force which is Chaired by Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo with specific requests for the recount; in response, Nagamootoo made it clear that the recount cannot go beyond 5pm and all observers who enter the country will have to be quarantined for two weeks in keeping with the emergency measures implemented by the caretaker Government to curb the spread of the deadly new Coronavirus.

Following Nagamootoo’s response, which came in for heavy criticism from the Opposition People’s Progressive Party (PPP), President Granger reportedly intervened.

GECOM  is currently meeting to finalise the operational plan for the recount.