Chairman of the Caricom, Mia Mottley has announced that President David Granger and Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo have agreed to have a high-level independent team from the CARICOM overlook the recount of ballots in Region 4.

It is hoped that the deal will defuse the current national crisis over the Region Four count and lso prevent any fall out with the US, UK, EU and Canada.

Ms. Mottley issued the following statement:

“Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen.

Many of you are aware that I led a high-level team of Caribbean Prime Ministers to Georgetown earlier this week to meet with all of the affected parties from the recent General Election of March 2, 2020. CARICOM has remained engaged over the last few days. 

I wish to announce that after discussions this morning, President Granger made a request for the Caribbean Community to field an independent high-level team to supervise the re-counting of the ballots in Region 4 in accordance with the ruling of the Chief Justice of 11 March, 2020. This has been agreed to by Mr. Bharrat Jagdeo.

We believe that this is a giant step in being able to determine the will of the Guyanese people in the Election of March 2, 2020. It will also allow the electoral process to regain the confidence of all locally, regionally and internationally.
I have spoken directly to both the President and the Leader of the Opposition and they have both committed to abide by the results of a fair and transparent recount of each and every ballot, as supervised by the CARICOM team. 

We also agreed that there needs to be steps taken to secure the integrity of the ballot boxes until the Recount takes place.