Regional chairs, vice-chairs elected, councillors sworn in
Region One Regional Chairman, Brentnol Ashley
Region One Regional Chairman, Brentnol Ashley

WITH the exception of Region Eight where several councillors have been affected by the COVID-19 virus, the councillors of the respective Regional Democratic Councils (RDCs) were sworn in and chairpersons and vice-chairs were elected on Monday, at their varying RDC locations.
Brentnol Ashley in Region One; Vickchand Ramphal in Region Five; Permaul Armogan in Region Six; and Bryan Allicock in Region Nine, all candidates for the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C), were the returning chairpersons.

In Region Two, Vilma Audrey Da Silva is the only female chairperson elected thus far. Da Silva, who is also a candidate for the PPP/C, replaces Davenand Ramdatt, who is now the Regional Executive Officer (REO) for that region. PPP/C Councillor Humace Odit was elected to serve as vice-chairman of Region Two.

With majority seats, the PPP/C candidates secured chairperson nods in six of the nine regions where elections were held so far. The APNU+AFC candidates received nods to the chairmanship in the remaining three regions, where that party had the majority.
Aside from the PPP/C and APNU+AFC, Change Guyana in Region Four, and Liberty Justice Party in Region Seven and Eight, were the only other political parties that were able to earn seats in the regional elections
The councillors were selected by their varying parties based on seats allocated to each party according to votes garnered in the regional elections, which were held alongside the general elections on March 2.
However, in Region Eight, with the APNU+AFC and PPP/C garnering seven seats apiece, the one seat held by the LJP just may carry the deciding weight when voting commences for that region.

The chairpersons and vice-chairpersons elected on Monday will later be sworn into those positions when they take the Oath of Office before President Irfaan Ali at a later date.

Aside from Regions One, Two, Five, Six and Nine, PPP/C candidates were also elected to head the RDCs in Region Three, where Ishan Ayube was elected to replace Julius Faerber, who is not among that region’s councillors this year. Ayube, who formerly served as the council’s vice-chairman, will now be supported by Omesh Satyanand as the vice-chairperson.

APNU+AFC candidates were elected chairpersons in Regions Four, Seven and 10.

Replacing Genevieve Allen as the regional chairperson of Region Four is Daniel Seeram with Samuel Sandy elected as vice-chairperson.
In Region Seven, Kenneth Williams secured the majority to be elected chairman for that region, replacing Gordon Bradford, who was not among the list of councillors this year. The Vice-chairperson of that region is Nageshwari Lochanprashad, who is mostly known as Kamal Persaud.
In Region 10, Deron Adams was elected chairman and Douglas Gittens as vice-chairman.
The full list of elected chair and vice-chair for the respective regions is below.

REGION ONE
Seats: 15 (5 APNU+AFC; 10 PPP/C)
Chairman: Brentnol Ashley
Vice Chairman: Anasha Peters

REGION TWO
Seats: 17 (Allocation: 5 APNU+AFC; 12 PPP/C)
Chairperson: Vilma Audrey Da Silva
Vice Chairman: Humace Odit

REGION THREE
Seats: 27 (Allocation: 9 APNU+AFC; 18 PPP/C)
Regional Chairperson: Ishan Ayube
Regional Vice Chairperson: Omesh Satyanand

REGION FOUR
Seats: 35 (Allocation: 20 APNU+AFC; 1 Change Guyana; 14 PPP/C)
Regional Chairman: Daniel Seeram
Regional Vice Chairman: Samuel Sandy

REGION FIVE.
Seats: 18 seats (Allocation: 8 APNU+AFC; 10 PPP/C)
Chairman: Vickchand Ramphal
Vice Chairman: Rion Lancedale Peters

REGION 6.
Seats: 30 (Allocation: 10 APNU+AFC; 20 PPP/C)
Regional Chairman: Permaul Armogan
Regional Vice Chairman – Zamal Hussain

REGION SEVEN
Seats: 15 (Allocation: 8 APNU+AFC; 1 LJP; 6 PPP/C)
Regional Chairman: Kenneth Williams
Deputy Regional Chairman: Nageshwari Lochanprashad (Kamal Persaud)

REGION EIGHT
Seats: 15 seats (Allocation: 7 APNU+AFC; 1 LJP; 7 PPPC)
Swearing in postponed

REGION 9
Seats: 15 (Allocation: 6 APNU+AFC; 9 PPP/C)
Regional Chairman: Bryan Allicock
Regional Vice Chairman: Bertie Xavier

REGION 10
Seats: 18 (Allocation: 15 APNU+AFC; 3 PPP/C)
Regional Chairman: Deron Adams
Regional Vice-Chair: Douglas Gittens

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