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Scenes from joint services voting day

Director of Prisons, Nicklon Elliot, cast his ballot at the Administrative Building of the Georgetown Prison. ๐„๐ฑ๐ฉ๐ž๐œ๐ญ ๐ง๐จ ๐ข๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ž ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐ฏ๐จ๐ญ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ญ๐จ๐๐š๐ฒโ€”๐‚๐ก๐ข๐ž๐Ÿ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ƒ๐ž๐Ÿ๐ž๐ง๐œ๐ž ๐’๐ญ๐š๐Ÿ๐Ÿ ๐š๐ฌ ๐ฆ๐ž๐ฆ๐›๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ ๐Ÿ๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐†๐ฎ๐ฒ๐š๐ง๐š ๐ƒ๐ž๐Ÿ๐ž๐ง๐œ๐ž ๐…๐จ๐ซ๐œ๐ž ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐š๐œ๐ž ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ข๐ซ ๐ฏ๐จ๐ญ๐ž๐ฌ President of Guyana Dr. Irfaan Ali on a visit to Base Camp Ayangana as voting day for the joint services […]

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