Tag: Guyana General Elections 2015

• Tuesday, May 19th 2015 - 02:16 UTC

  UK commends Guyana's elections and pledges support for President Granger

  

  The United Kingdom congratulated Guyana for last week's general election and promised to continue working with the new government of David Granger to build on the strong and long-standing relationship between the two countries.

• Monday, May 18th 2015 - 04:55 UTC

  Granger swears as Guyana's new president with a one seat majority in legislature

  

  Former army brigadier David Granger was sworn in as Guyana's new president on Saturday after his multiracial opposition coalition narrowly won a national election, heralding a new chapter in the ethnically-divided.

• Saturday, May 16th 2015 - 08:03 UTC

  Opposition wins in Guyana defeating party in power for 23 years

  

  A retired army general is poised to become Guyana’s new president after a multi-ethnic opposition ¬coalition defeated a party that has been in power for 23 years, officials said. Preliminary results show David Granger and his Partnership for National Unity-Alliance for Change Coalition got nearly 207,000 votes in Monday’s ¬general elections.

• Tuesday, May 12th 2015 - 10:30 UTC

  Ex US president Carter ends Guyana election monitoring trip after falling ill

  

  Former United States President Jimmy Carter ended an election-monitoring trip to Guyana early and flew home on Sunday after falling ill, the Carter Center, his nonprofit organization, said in a statement. The Carter Center provided only sketchy information on Sunday about the condition of the 90-year-old former president.

• Tuesday, May 12th 2015 - 08:51 UTC

  Guyana voting in early election to end Executive/Legislative standoff

  

  Guyana voted Monday in early elections pitting embattled President Donald Ramotar against an upstart opposition alliance seeking to unite voters across racial lines with its calls to end corruption.

• Wednesday, May 6th 2015 - 07:10 UTC

  OAS deploys electoral observation mission for Guyana Sunday's election

  

  The Organization of American States has started the deployment of the Electoral Observation Mission of the Organization of American States to the general and regional elections scheduled iin Guyana for Sunday May 11. This is the fifth time the OAS has observed elections in Guyana, following Missions in 1997, 2001, 2006 and 2011.

• Saturday, January 24th 2015 - 05:44 UTC

  UK, US and Canada welcome elections announcement by Guyanese president

  

  The United States of America, Canada, and the United Kingdom have welcomed Guyana's President Ramotar’s announcement that national and regional elections will be held in Guyana on May 11, 2015. Elections are a critical first-step towards the return of a fully functioning Parliament.

• Friday, January 23rd 2015 - 06:30 UTC

  Guyana president announces May 11 as date for general elections

  

  Guyana President Donald Ramotar announced this week that May 11 is the date for general and regional elections in the country, less than five years after his ruling People's Progressive Party (PPP) won the polls in November 2011.