Guyana bishop speaks out on post-election tensions

Bishop Francis Alleyne OSB of Georgetown has added his voice to the many others in making a strong appeal to the Guyana Elections Commission to expeditiously complete the verification process towards the transparent, formal and lawful declaration of results.

“People are dying, people are being wounded, children are being traumatised, property is being destroyed, the nation is gripped in fear,” the Bishop said in a statement issued March 7 and shared to Catholic News via WhatsApp.

This, he said, is much too high a cost for a national election and for a nation at any time.

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