Distinguished Amerindian environmental and community activist, Sydney Allicock and Dr Karen Cummings, wife of PPP candidate Dr Emmanuel Cummings are among some of the new faces appearing on the lists of A Partnership For National Unity (APNU) for the upcoming general and regional elections.
Sydney Allicock
Allicock, a resident of Surama, last year won the Anthony Sabga Award for Excellence for his public and civil contributions, and his commitment to sustainable development and the livelihood of hinterland residents.
The coalition grouping in a release on Tuesday said that the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) approved 459 of its candidates.
APNU’s regional list comprises 327, 138 of which are female; its geographic constituencies list – 45, 19 of which are women; and the National Top-up List – 87, 29 of which are women.
APNU and three other parties have received confirmation that they have satisfied the requirements to contest this year’s national and regional elections come November 28. The political parties submitted their lists of candidates last Thursday to GECOM’s Chief Elections Officer, Gocool Boodoo at City Hall.
“On Nomination Day, APNU submitted lists of candidates to contest all of the 10 Regional Democratic Councils, all 10 geographic constituencies and the National Top-up List for the National Assembly of the Parliament. After the submission, GECOM requested APNU to remedy, during the statutory period provided for this purpose, a few defects, which, they had identified. The original of the two photocopies of the supporting nomination signatories documents which were submitted for each of the 21 lists were requested and these were subsequently submitted,” APNU’s release to the media stated.
In addition to Dr Karen Cummings and Allicock, the party also unveiled some of its new faces, businessmen Charles Ceres; SAV Paul, Ali Majeed Mazarool, Ronald Bulkan and Morris Wilson; university professors Dr David Hinds and Rishi Thakur Srithackoor; agriculturalists Dr Kenneth Sealey and Dr Vernon Mc Pherson; accountants Junior Garett and Jaipaul Sharma; Attorneysat-law Michael Summersaul, Joseph Harmon, James Bond and Trenton Lake; women on the lists include journalist Nicole Telford, management consultant Sandra Jones, lecturer Gentian Ann Miller and Gem Ann Roberts.
Among the many young people included in the list are administrator Annette Ferguson, lecturer Tabitha Sarabo, youth leaders Christopher Jones, Mimi Fernandes, Nickola Dalrymple, Shondel Hope, Belinda Harris and Mark Walkes, TV journalist Malika Ramsey, technician Ganesh Mahipaul, and manager Gulab Bulkan.
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