THE Public Education Officer of the Electoral Office of Jamaica and the Secretary of the Association of Caribbean Electoral Organisations (ACEO), Ms. Christin Senior, yesterday paid a courtesy call on Dr. Steve Surujbally, Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM). Ms. Senior is part of a team of representatives from Caribbean Election Management Bodies associated with the ACEO, who will participate at the executive meeting of the ACEO at the Hotel Tower today. The meeting is being hosted by GECOM. She arrived ahead of the other overseas delegates to finalise arrangements for the meeting in collaboration with Mr. Gocool Boodoo, Chief Election Officer of GECOM.

The salient issues to be addressed at this meeting are an update on the newly established Commonwealth Network of National Election Management Bodies as documented in a circular letter from Dr.  Kamalesh Sharma, Commonwealth Secretary General, reviewing and approving the report of the last Annual General Meeting, held in Trinidad and Tobago in 2010, and proposing agenda items for the Annual General Meeting – 2011 of the ACEO which will be held here after Guyana’s general and regional elections 2011.

GECOM will be represented at the Executive Meeting by Dr. Surujbally and Mr.Gocool Boodoo.