{"id":252316,"date":"2020-07-11T21:19:27","date_gmt":"2020-07-12T01:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/?p=252316"},"modified":"2020-07-11T21:19:27","modified_gmt":"2020-07-12T01:19:27","slug":"statement-by-caricom-chairman-on-ccj-guyana-elections-ruling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/homepage-carousel\/statement-by-caricom-chairman-on-ccj-guyana-elections-ruling\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement by CARICOM Chairman on CCJ Guyana elections ruling"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_252317\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-252317\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-252317\" src=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Gonsalves-Guyana.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Gonsalves-Guyana.jpg 620w, https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Gonsalves-Guyana-300x196.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-252317\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">CARICOM Chairman, PM Gonsalves of St. Vincent and the Grenadines<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Caribbean Community (<span class=\"il\">CARICOM<\/span>) welcomes the progress towards the finalisation of the\u00a0<span class=\"il\">electoral<\/span>\u00a0process in\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Guyana<\/span>\u00a0following the ruling of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) on Wednesday 8 July. The Community calls on all stakeholders to respect the ruling of the CCJ,\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Guyana<\/span>\u2019s final court of appeal.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, the CCJ in the summary judgement aptly stated: \u201cIt has been four months since the\u00a0<span class=\"il\">elections<\/span>\u00a0were held and the country has been without a Parliament for well over a year. No one in\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Guyana<\/span>\u00a0would regard this to be a satisfactory state of affairs. We express the fervent hope that there would quickly be a peaceable restoration of normalcy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Accordingly, the Court\u2019s ruling should lead to a declaration by the\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Guyana<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Elections<\/span>\u00a0Commission (GECOM) of the results of the General and Regional\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Elections<\/span>\u00a0held on 2 March 2020, without further delay.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"il\">CARICOM<\/span>\u00a0commends the continuing patience and calm of the people of\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Guyana<\/span>\u00a0and calls on all stakeholders to respect the rule of law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) welcomes the progress towards the finalisation of the\u00a0electoral\u00a0process in\u00a0Guyana\u00a0following the ruling of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) on Wednesday 8 July. The Community calls on all stakeholders to respect the ruling of the CCJ,\u00a0Guyana\u2019s final&#8230;","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":252317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,235,9,12,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-homepage-carousel","category-news","category-politics","category-regional"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Statement by CARICOM Chairman on CCJ Guyana elections ruling - Dominica News Online<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dominicanewsonline.com\/news\/homepage\/homepage-carousel\/statement-by-caricom-chairman-on-ccj-guyana-elections-ruling\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Statement by CARICOM Chairman on CCJ Guyana elections ruling - Dominica News Online\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) welcomes the progress towards the finalisation of the\u00a0electoral\u00a0process in\u00a0Guyana\u00a0following the ruling of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) on Wednesday 8 July. 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