GECOM’s DCEO released on $300,000 bail - Lowenfield’s trial to start in November

GECOM’s DCEO released on $300,000 bail – Lowenfield’s trial to start in November

Oct 10, 2020 News

By Renay Sambach

Kaieteur News – Deputy Chief Elections Officer, Roxanne Myers, was yesterday released on $300,000, bail for two charges in relation to her actions during the March 2, 2020, General and Regional Elections.

Chief Elections Officer, Keith Lowenfield at court yesterday.

Deputy Chief Elections Officer, Roxanne Myers, leaving court yesterday.

Myers made her first court appearance with her attorneys, Nigel Hughes and Ronald Daniels, in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan.
Myers was slapped with two counts of misconduct in public office and she was not required to plead to the indictable charge that was read to her.
State Prosecutor Tarique Mohamed made objections to bail being granted to Myers based on the seriousness of the offence and the fact that the police were unable to make contact with the defendant for over a month.
However, Chief Magistrate McLennan granted Myers bail in the sum of $150,000 on each charge, and the matter was adjourned to October 23, 2020.
Myers was arrested on Tuesday, October 6, 2020, after she turned herself in at the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) Headquarters, Eve Leary, Georgetown.
This happened less than 24 hours after it was made public that Myers was wanted by the Guyana Police Force (GPF) for questioning in relation to the investigation of fraud during the 2020 elections period.
According to police, for more than a month several efforts were made to contact Myers at home and even at her place of work in relation to post-March 2, 2020 elections incidents.
However, those efforts were futile, police said, as Myers made every effort to elude them. As a result, a wanted bulletin for Myers was prepared by the GPF but before it was issued, she turned up at CID Headquarters in the company of her attorneys.
Meanwhile, the trial for the matter against the Chief Elections Officer, Keith Lowenfield, is scheduled to commence in November.
Yesterday Lowenfield made another appearance in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts before Principal Magistrate, Faith McGusty, for the continuation of the criminal charges that were filed against him. The charges allege fraud, misconduct in public office, and breach of the public’s trust.
The criminal charges were filed against Lowenfield on June 30, 2020, by People’s Progressive Party (PPP) member, Desmond Morian, and The New Movement Party (TNM) executive, Dr. Daniel Josh Kanhai.
Yesterday, while speaking to reporters, one of Lowenfield’s lawyer, Senior Counsel Neil Boston, said his client has to return to court on October 23, 2020, to receive the remaining statements of witnesses that are expected to testify against him and on November 13, 2020, the trial is expected to begin for the charges filed by Morian and on November 20, 2020, the trial for the charge filed by Kanhai.
Police announced in August last that they will be conducting a comprehensive investigation into the criminal conduct of Lowenfield; the Returning Officer of Region Four, Clairmont Mingo, and others in relation to the March 2, 2020 General and Regional Elections and the events that followed.
Mingo was slapped with four charges that allege that he misconducted himself in public office. He is also before another court facing a joint electoral fraud charge, with former Health Minister and PNC/R Chairperson, Ms. Volda Lawrence, for conspiracy to commit fraud.
Mingo’s next court dates are November 16, 2020 and December 15, 2020.

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