General elections were held in Guyana on 28 August 2006. They were initially scheduled for 4 August, but were moved to 28 August after President Jagdeo...
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General elections were held in Guyana on 28 November 2011. The result was a victory for the People's Progressive Party/Civic, which won 32 of the 65 seats...
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General elections were held in Guyana on 19 March 2001. The result was a victory for the People's Progressive Party/Civic, which won 34 of the 65 seats...
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on the Afro-Guyanese than on the Indo-Guyanese, in a deliberate and successful attempt to divide the PPP. Dieter Nohlen (2005) Elections in the Americas:...
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Irfaan Ali (category Guyanese politicians of Indian descent)
challenges regarding the integrity of the election and a recount of all electoral ballots. Ali was born into an Indo-Guyanese Muslim family to Bibi Shariman Neshaw...
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Forbes Burnham (category Guyanese Methodists)
the 2020 Guyanese general election. Support for the two parties continues to follow the racial divide between Afro-Guyanese and Indo-Guyanese. Burnham's...
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Burnham-led faction won three. Following the elections, Burnham's faction left the party to establish the Afro-Guyanese-dominated People's National Congress (PNC)...
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Cheddi Jagan (category Guyanese democracy activists)
was elected president in the 1992 Guyanese general election, which was regarded as the first "free and fair" election since 1964. Cheddi Berret (Anglicized...
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History of Guyana (redirect from Guyanese history)
implemented and new elections set for October 1964. As Jagan feared, the PPP lost the general elections of 1964. The politics of aapan jaat, Guyanese Hindustani...
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Alliance For Change called for a ban on Venezuelans with Guyanese citizenship from voting in elections, as well as not granting citizenship to more people...
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only 1.28% of the population were entitled to vote. Five Indo-Guyanese ran for election, including Edward Luckhoo, mayor of New Amsterdam and Joseph Alexander...
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Janet Jagan (category Guyanese women writers)
(née Rosenberg; 20 October 1920 – 28 March 2009) was an American-born Guyanese politician who served as the President of Guyana, serving from December...
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Sam Hinds (category Guyanese people of African descent)
Samuel Archibald Anthony Hinds (born 27 December 1943) is a Guyanese politician who was Prime Minister of Guyana almost continuously from 1992 to 2015...
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Elections in Guyana take place within the framework of a multi-party representative democracy and a presidential system. The National Assembly is directly...
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leaders, would afford black Temple members a peaceful place to live. Later, Guyanese Prime Minister Forbes Burnham stated that Jones may have "wanted to use...
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Bharrat Jagdeo (category Guyanese Hindus)
Bharrat Jagdeo (born 23 January 1964) is a Guyanese politician who has been serving as Vice President of Guyana since 2020, in the administration of President...
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List of heads of state of Guyana (redirect from List of Governors-General of Guyana)
used by President Irfaan Ali Lost confidence vote on 21 December 2018; see 2020 Guyanese general election World Statesmen – Guyana Rulers.org – Guyana...
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Rise Organise and Rebuild Guyana (ROAR) was an Indo-Guyanese political party in Guyana led by Ravi Dev. ROAR was established as a political party in 1999...
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Desmond Hoyte (category Guyanese people of African descent)
General Council of the People's National Congress. In 1966, he was appointed to the National Elections Commission, which supervised the 1968 Guyanese...
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General elections were held in British Guiana on 21 August 1961. The result was a victory for the People's Progressive Party, which won 20 of the 35 seats...
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was established in January 1989 as Guyanese Action for Reform and Democracy (GUARD). It contested national elections for the first time in 2001, when it...
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election 2006 Bahraini parliamentary election 2006 Costa Rican presidential election 2006 Fijian presidential election 2006 Fijian general election 2006...
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Caribbean Community (category United Nations General Assembly observers)
estimated 50,000 Guyanese had migrated to Suriname by 1986 In 1987 an estimated 30–40,000 Guyanese were in Suriname. Many Guyanese left Suriname in the...
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Economy of Guyana (redirect from Guyanese economy)
480 Food for Peace programme. It is now supplied on a grant basis. The Guyanese currency generated by the sale of the wheat is used for purposes agreed...
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David Lammy (category English people of Guyanese descent)
Lindon Lammy was born on 19 July 1972 in Whittington Hospital in Archway to Guyanese parents David and Rosalind Lammy. He and his four siblings were raised...
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Guyana–Venezuela territorial dispute (section Guyanese independence and the occupation of Ankoko Island)
government of Prime Minister Forbes Burnham following the 1968 Guyanese general election. The Guyanese government was in the process of creating a commission...
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resumption of free elections. On 5 October 1992, a new National Assembly and regional councils were elected in the first Guyanese election since 1964 to be...
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Women in Guyana (redirect from Guyanese women)
British colonization and imperialism have contributed to the sexism against Guyanese women in the household, politics, and education. Guyana is geographically...
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General elections were held in British Guiana in September 1930. Following the victory of the Popular Party in the 1926 elections, constitutional reforms...
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Gina Miller (category English people of Indo-Guyanese descent)
and Doodnauth Singh, who later became the Attorney General of Guyana. She is of Hindu Indo-Guyanese descent. On her father's side, she traces her origin...
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