great,until Guyanese and concern plople are satisfy

So is everyone going to verify these in their own'bedroom' or will they do it publicly under camera so as to bring confidence to the process and everyone.

Lets have one big open room witht he media to doa verification. At least every SOP can be challenges with some merit and correlation to another party.

I have consistently made this observation to congress place , that the elections are generally smooth and free of problems but as soon as it gets to Gecom the problems this has been the case with at least four of the last elections.It seems as if no one can get it right if this is not rigging then I am Saint Peter. Mind you these are the same people that kept accusing the PNC of rigging elections to stay in power those years ago i wonder who is illegal now?

The PNC were never 'choirboys'. Why would the PPP/C seek to present itself as 'cherub-like'. If there is no blood on their hands, they may have worn gloves. Why risk being labelled as election riggers - a stain which is so hard to get rid of?

APNU supporters should not give in to what the PPP/C expects .Stay off the street and deal with the in Parliament .However the recent events requires citizens to unite and protest against the actions of the police and the instruction given to use rubber pilets. My questions therefore are:
1) When was the use of rubber pilet passed?
2)Was that force necessary where is Demoracy in our state?

Dr. Steve Surujbally, Chairman of Guyana Elections Commission, is showed an adroit use of underhanded tactics. Failing to EFFECTIVELY COMMUNICATE ACCURATE LEGITMATE DATA to Guyanese and the diaspora is GROSS MISCONDUCT! Surely, POVERTY AND HARD LIFE WILL FOLLOW US ALL THE DAYS OF OUR EXISTENCE under oppressive PPP/C and we SHALL LIVE IN OUR PARENTS' HOUSE FOREVER had dishonest, obstreperous, nyctophobic GECOM not offered PSEUDO REPORTS!!!!!!

THE FEAR OF THE LORD IS TO HATE EVIL; PRIDE, ARROGANCE AND THE EVIL WAY, AND THE PERVERSE MOUTH GOD HATES!!!!

There is no sweet talking, LIKE THE TALK OF FREEDOM! They try to stick us in the mud, JUST SHEDDING AFRICANS'S BLOOD....... UNITED WE STAND; DIVIDED WE FALL ........ Guyanese people STAND FIRM! Do not give up! CITIZENS' BRUTALITY IS WRONG! Only the VERIFICATION OF POLLS WE NEED. Tear Gas and Shooting peaceful protesters are NOT the solution. WE WILL BREAKDOWN THE WALLS OF CORRUPTION.......... ALLOW THE VERIFICATION PROCESS!

Why didn't the do this earlier, you mean anything black people want in this land they have to shed blood first for it. God help us when blood must be shed before something as simple and as easy as this could have been done.

Lets hope that good sense prevail in the future and that consideration is given to the demands of all side. I might add "fair consideration".

Let peace, fairness and equity reign in this our Guyana!!!!

A lot of time to DOCTOR the list in favour of the PPP.

Moderator why this medium discontinued the comment section during the election period??Was this action taken through coercion by the PPP?Just curious like soooo many other readers.

As a Guyanese who would to visit my country for long periods, and take friends to tour and enjoy some of the good life that I had, I am hoping and praying that everything is resolved as quickly as possible. I constantly boast about my upbringing and schooling in my country, and I hope to see it return to that beautiful place that it once was.

What Dr Hinds and the WPA extremists want is a race war. Simple and straight.

That is not acceptable or desirable. APNU lost your fair and free elections internationally certified.

I support no shared government as proposed by the Private Sector Commission.

IN G/T, IT IS SIMPLE, THE BENEFICARY OF ALL THIS SCRAMBLING TO REPLACE A POLITACAL LEADER, IT WILL ONLY MAKE THE POLITICAL'MAFIA'THE BENEFICARY, OF ALL ABUSIVE, GREED, & CORRUPTED IDEOLOGY, THE ENTITLEMENT OF ANY POLITICAL GOV'T.GOD SAVE THEIR SOUL ON THE DAYS OF THEIR FINAL CALLS.

Finally, hope the people keep applying pressure.

This is crazy the APNU also have statements of polls, whydo they think thts theirs are any different from those that GECOM has. They should just accept teh results and move on. They are sore losers! They leader needs to be brought to the Carribean Court of Justice for corruption, s that is all they are doing. disturbing the llivelihoods of other law abiding citizens, this is the joyous and they are bent on spoiling it!

First of all, thank you for allowing comments.

Secondly, i am glad that this is done...finally. now we can get our salary increase and tax cuts. :)

Dr surubally,did the right thing,wonder why he take so long

It is great indeed that the GECOM will comply with the opposition requests for the statements of poll that could allow an all party verification of the results. Guyanese came out in the largest numbers seen in over 2 decades to vote. They deserve that their curiosities and enquiries be satisfied. Clearly, the process for counting these votes were so significantly delayed, without obvious reasons, it provided sufficient reason to generate concerns of the international observer mission. And,the appearance of vote/ballot tampering is not an unfair conjecture given the history of such occurrences in other Guyanese elections.
My Prayer is ( and I ask others to join in prayer) this : that this verification step will quell any tensions that have arisen as a result of the delayed vote counts and the challenges to the election results; and, that it can allow the process of development of the new government to proceed with relative calm and speed; if there are questionable discrepancies after an all- party tally that the matter will be sent to the appropriate courts of Guyana, Caricom and international to present the case for legal consideration.

Even here in the USA, where large numbers of many Guyanese reside, there have been allegations of vote tampering during 2 recent consecutive presidential elections ( in some places,)done by the officials representing the party in power. In one case the courts determined the the presidential winner ( a historic precedent in the USA). Because of the time lapse that allows preparation for the transition between the old and new administrations the business of the country was not affected, significantly, by the challenges of election fraud etc. However Guyana has so such time gap to depend on. The business health of the country need to be protected / not be compromised. A government in place and able to function is essential.

So, even if fraud/vote tampering by the PPP/C is confirmed by the all-party tally, the election results still makes a even more fundamental statement about the huge and unmistakable mood change in Guyana, with respect to the magnitude of loss of confidence in the incumbent party/government administration. This, compounded scenario, would offer a major advantage to the opposition parties to unify, to make efforts to heal across the the race divide; to force the changes in government behaviors that the people voted for -i.e an end to the rampant and bold corrupt/criminal government practices; and an end to the selective treatment/neglect of ethnic groups and their communities, which became very obvious.

I commend my Guyanese brothers/sisters/their children, all who help to make this statement so loud and so clear on Nov. 28, 2011 in Guyana by their vote. It is now up to the leaders of all parties , and particularly the opposition, to begin taking steps necessary to respond to this public statement, with the action necessary to move forward with haste in the direction to address the important needs of the populace of Guyana, especially those who have been hurting so bad for so long.

This is the first opportunity Guyana has received ( in my 'baby boomer' lifetime)forcin g all the political parties to move with unison of vision and purpose if their collective goal to make right in Guyana creating and bright future for all( not some)of our children.

Ngozi Moses.

Let us see if the ppp will agree to sop being
check n i am almost certain that this is going to be totaly different from what the other party has,so this is not going to be the end of the matter.The ppp are bulling their way as usual,n using the police n their hence men to have their own way not understanding that they r a miniorty goverment.

I believe that the PPP lost the elections, and they won by cheating. Why did it take them so long to give the resut to the people and to see those black police men shooting black brothers with rubber bullets that is sad, i wonder how long we'll have to wait to see them using live bullets after jack spent a lot of guyanese people money buying guns bullets. It is my believe that the Afro guyanese people must rise up for their rights, I was there in July and I was sadden to see the way how black people were treated in guyana.Guyana has now become an aparthied state where one group of people dominates another and where racism is a daily practice. Rise up gt people the world is with all of you freemdom loving people. Judgement say no where to run for the like of jack and his cronies they must and will face judgement.

Why so long did he not know that he is responsible to the people of Guyana to do such and not one person or party?
this would have also given credit to him and GECOM and the process so again WHY SO LONG?

There is a war brewing,what comes next depends on the understanding of the problems of Guyanese people,people be cautious when making your moves.

Quoting innocent bloodecloth:

"The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has decided to hand over Statements of Poll to the parties which contested the November 28 polls following the demand from opposition coalition A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) for an all party verification of the documents."

"I'm handing it over to them this afternoon, the Statements of Poll and the summary of the box-by-box-statements and let's see if that satisfies them. If not they can meet with me tomorrow," he said in a brief statement.
Well the fix-it victory must be fully fixed by now, so he is confident that the fraud is undetected.
Talk about foul play delay.
We will see if their statements of poll match those of APNU
Don't trust AFC they could declare the same poll statements like GECOM to help GECOM look legitimate. Remember dem is PPP(1) and PPP(2)and dem gun gang up gainst APNU.
Look at the contempt: I am handing it over to them...
WELL!! WELL!!!
People had to be shot before the decision to hand over poll statements.

I am so sure that those statement of polls are not authentic. I think it is a waste of time.

They will protest again still when they are not satisfied with the statement of polls,so what will be the next move?
They have a big say in parliament,isn't that what they want,the ruling party can't do anything without their imput,isn't that a fair thing,if the ruling party had cheated,won't they have cheated so they can win,i would.

Really the people on this blog are the most peaceful, loving and intellectual people. read there argument and statment clearly defind who they are.

this is a waste of time they took too long to issue this to the parties they already made all the changes that were needed so as to make it look as the results would look

Who need you guys? Coming to think of it, shared governance why enter a flawed system....hmmmmm nooooo way. APNU is crossing the red sea at this point and there will be a time when we will reach the (PROMISE LAND)Love to all my guyanese ppl. May God bless us all.

gecom have already fixed the sop they had enough time to do this, also why not sit down with the parties and verify the original SOP'S no dvd copies
no dvd copies ......

\people of the 39 comments posted only 1 received -9 likes please lets continue to not even see that what?where? who?>>>>.

Wonder if PPP recount and found out their was a mistake in region 1 and they got the addition 6 votes their to get the addition seat. what will the Opposition do?

Protests as we know it escalate with people getting beaten up and robbed, stores being looted and burned down. No one can deny these facts, the protests always start peaceful and end rowdy even to the point of invading the Office of the President. The leaders of these protests can't maintain a peaceful protest. Citizens and property owners have a right to go about their business without fear of unruly protesters. Thats why as soon as word gets around that a protest is in progress, the busy town becomes a ghost town. Protest if you must, but take cognisance of the rights of other citizens and their property and do it within the confines of the law. The laws are there to maintain order and protect the rights of citizens. Protests are done to have wrongs corrected but many wrongs are done during this exercise.

we are one people. we need to stop this foolish display and move on.our past does not matter we have our future to think about,our children,what kind of example are we setting for them?come on guyanese people lets move on together ,only then we can effect any kind of change that would be benificial to us as a nation.

this is nothing new, the oposition party is NEVER satisfy with the vote count, I guess this is the only way they can keep their party members together.
This may sound funny but if they are allowed to count the votes alone without any other party supporters around and don't win the election they will still take the streets and ask for a recount.

why yall disable de comments during just before, during and just after elections??????????? yea, that's me question.

granger, david hind, and other racists have convinced these unemployed,crim inal supporters of theirs that once apnu assumes government they will automatically become affluent-no effort is required

Quoting Sigmond:

don't these people work. They spend all their time in the streets. No wonder Guyana can never go forward. We will always these stumbling blocks. Where is the water cannon?

I guess you will say the same for those in Wall Street, Egypt, Libya and the rest of the world....

I am glad I did not vote AFC..I will still be wondering whether my vote was counted. Their silence is deafening.

What does APNU & AFC hope to achieve from those statements. The PPP had enough time to Burnham those records.

[quote name="Dueces"]They will protest again still when they are not satisfied with the statement of polls,so what will be the next move?
They have a big say in parliament,isn't that what they want,the ruling party can't do anything without their imput,isn't that a fair thing,if the ruling party had cheated,won't they have cheated so they can win,i would.

The president has VETO powers; he does not have to get opposition agreement.
Ask President to confirm his VETO POWERS.

I will like to know why the people in the APNU party does not wanted to accept defeat.It is a fare and free election.I think the police is doing their job to keep them off and let the country keep getting up.It is not like before when they loves to rig the election.I have look at the result and it look very fare.
to the people of Guyana. Let keep developing and go ahead with it.
Thank You.

as usual the cabal or few get together and get rich at the expense of the few like you and i. we at the bottom fighting in our poverty stricken state. they over the years enjoy the fat of the land. burnham shuhabadeen ramphal teeka; hamme green reid now jagan lunchman hinds,labumba edghill jagdeo. this is not race. race has little to do with it. we must ensure that we find a righteous government. when the righteous rule the people rejoice when the wicked rule the people groan,

who reads these things any way people like me who would not make a differnce here but when i pray i see results. believe me i do see results.