Private sector ‘gravely concerned’ over polling...

now to be located in tents on the Line Top and a playfield!”

They added that Mon Repos, a huge housing community, had listed on the January list, seven private and seven public places, for polling but now there are only two Polling Places, Mon Repos Nursery and Primary Schools, both in the same location.

The trio said that Good Hope, another large housing area had on the January list three private and two public places; it now has provision for two tents and one public place – that being a Nursery School which is a relatively small flat building.

“It is apposite to note that most of the affected communities are predominantly PPP/C areas, and that political party is not unreasonably protesting the unilateral changes which were made without any consultation with us.

“This decision was made by the CEO in his own deliberate judgement, and for him to now claim that it was the Commission’s decision not to use any private residences, is totally false. No such decision was made by the Commission between the date we received the January, 2020 list and the publication of the lists in February, 2020”.

“We reject the unilateral changes made by the CEO and his Secretariat, to the Lists of Polling Places and demand that the January 2020 Listings be used countrywide. Nothing less will do”, Gunraj, Shadick and Benn said.

Earlier on Sunday, the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) stepped up its protest over the polling stations changes by dispatching a letter to the GECOM Chair appealing for action. The party said it had done this as it had gotten no satisfaction from Lowenfield.