THE CARICOM scrutinising team has completed its report on Guyana’s recently concluded national recount of votes cast at the 2020 General and Regional Elections and will be presenting the report in short order to Chairperson, Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), Justice (Retd) Claudette Singh.

The report will join that of Chief Elections Officer (CEO) Keith Lowenfield, who submitted his on June 13, 2020. The two reports will serve to guide GECOM on its final decision as to whether a declaration is made based on the data gathered from the recount.

Speaking with the Guyana Chronicle on Sunday, CARICOM Secretariat Communications Programme Manager Kendol Morgan said that the media will be informed when the report is handed over to Justice Singh.

According to the gazetted Order which paved the way for the national recount: “The CARICOM Scrutinising Team shall submit a report to the Commission which may include their observations, recommendations and conclusions.”

The CARICOM scrutinising team arrived in Guyana on May 1 and includes Senior Lecturer at the University of the West Indies, Cynthia Barrow-Giles; Commissioner of the Antigua and Barbuda Electoral Commission, John Jarvis; and Supervisor of St Vincent Electoral Commission, Sylvester King.

They received support from the CARICOM Secretariat in Georgetown and are guided by the intent of CARICOM Chair, Prime Minister Mia Mottley of Barbados, to see the recount process be conducted in the spirit of transparency.