GEORGETOWN, Guyana (CMC) – The Guyana government has described as “exceptionally partisan” statements made by the former Jamaica prime minister, Bruce Golding, who led an Organisation of American States (OAS) observer team to the March 2 regional and general election.

Golding on Wednesday told the OAS Permanent Council that the poll was being rigged at the declaration of results by the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) and that the on-going national re-count of ballots has so far showed variation in results from the ongoing recount compared to the results that were declared by Region Four Returning Officer, Clairmont Mingo.

Providing comparisons of the Mingo declaration with the Statements of Poll and Statements of Recount from the current recount exercise, Golding said “it takes an extraordinarily courageous mind to produce fictitious numbers when such a sturdy paper trail exists.

“It appears as if this as coordinated and prearranged to deliver statements which were strikingly similar in content and style,” Harmon said, noting that Golding focused on the issue of declaration and other documents issued by the PPP “as if this is the authentic statement by GECOM.

The government said Golding’s statement is not only “exceptionally partisan” but it is grossly irresponsible and hostile to the nation and the people of Guyana and coming from a former CARICOM leader.