THE posts of assistant chief elections officer and logistics manager will have to be filled soon as an admin committee meet next Tuesday to expedite the process.
This is according to GECOM Commissioner, Vincent Alexander, after another meeting that was held at the election’s body headquarters in Kingston on Tuesday.
Alexander said the meeting sought to advance the work of the commission and re-activate the work of the admin committee.

He explained that the committee has to look at the number of vacancies that have not been filled, specifically that of a logistics manager and an assistant chief elections officer.
Alexander said that the admin committee is scheduled to meet next Tuesday to advance the process of filling the vacancies.

Additionally, he said, “The operations committee itself is expected to meet on Friday, so that they can look at issues pertaining to the house-of-house information, how that will be used and the commission itself is meeting on Friday.”

Alexander explained that the vacancies were available since last year and were left open when the elections commission was void of a chairperson.
He noted that the commission is in a mode where it is likely to meet twice a week to advance the work towards the hosting of elections.

Further, he said the encoding process has passed the first stage while claims and objections are ongoing. Meanwhile, GECOM Commissioner, Sase Gunraj, said updates were received on the claims and objections period, along with houses-to-house registration data.
Gunraj said he learned that there were 2,127 transactions from claims and there were only two objections, while the encoding process is scheduled to be completed on October, 15, 2019.