Guyanese cit­i­zens will have to wait a lit­tle longer to find out the out­come of the op­po­si­tion Peo­ple’s Pro­gres­sive Par­ty’s (PPP) chal­lenge over the Guyana Elec­tion Com­mis­sion’s (GECOM) han­dling of the dis­put­ed count process in Re­gion Four fol­low­ing Mon­day’s gen­er­al elec­tion.

This af­ter Chief Jus­tice Rox­anne George-Wilt­shire agreed to ad­journ the mat­ter to 1.30 pm Sat­ur­day.

"As we know, the na­tion awaits," Chief Jus­tice George-Wilt­shire said as she presided over the hear­ing of the in­junc­tion filed against GECOM ear­li­er Sat­ur­day.

The mat­ter start­ed at 10.30 am in court­room one of the Guyana High Court.

Trinidad and To­ba­go-born Se­nior Coun­sel Dou­glas Mendes, who is lead­ing the le­gal team that filed the in­junc­tion, called for the mat­ter to be ad­journed for four af­fi­davits to be filed.

Mendes told Guardian Me­dia that he was called around 3 pm on Fri­day to rep­re­sent the PPP team.

Se­nior Coun­sel Neil Boston, who rep­re­sent­ed the re­spon­dents, ar­gued that the High Court is not the prop­er ju­ris­dic­tion to hear the in­junc­tion. He said the con­sti­tu­tion al­lows for an elec­tion pe­ti­tion.

Boston said the in­junc­tion should not have been grant­ed by Jus­tice Navin­dra Singh in the civ­il ju­ris­dic­tion of the High Court on Thurs­day.

The sit­u­a­tion aris­es out of the Guyana Elec­tion Com­mis­sion's han­dling of the Re­gion 4 count process.

Both the rul­ing Part­ner­ship for Na­tion­al Uni­ty and Al­liance for Change (AP­NU+AFC) and PPP have claimed vic­to­ry in the elec­tion, al­though the in­cum­bent par­ty has been de­clared win­ner by GECOM de­spite the is­sue with the Re­gion Four count. But the PPP has ac­cused the AP­NU+AFC of at­tempt­ing to steal the elec­tion fol­low­ing the Re­gion 4 dis­pute.

George-Wilt­shire told the par­ties in­volved that the mat­ter would go on un­til com­plet­ed, even if this means late hours of work.

"We have to work a lit­tle ex­tra. When du­ty calls, du­ty calls," she said.

Scat­tered protests across the coun­try by sup­port­ers of the op­po­si­tion par­ty have al­ready led to the killing of one man by po­lice in West Coast Berbice on Fri­day night.

Po­lice said See­dat' De­von' Han­sraj, 18, was shot dead af­ter he and a group of peo­ple armed with cut­lass­es, pieces of wood and iron at­tacked them along Cot­ton Tree Pub­lic Road.

Ac­cord­ing to re­ports, Han­sraj al­leged­ly chopped po­lice two po­lice of­fi­cers dur­ing the melee be­fore he was shot dead. Three of­fi­cers were in­jured dur­ing the in­ci­dent.