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Senior Senator for the Opposition, Lisa Shoman has been called on by the Organisation of American States to head an election observer mission to Guyana. The elections are set for May 11th and today in Panama, the Secretary General of the OAS, José Miguel Insulza, and the Permanent Representative of Guyana to the OAS, Bayney Karran, signed the agreement. Shoman is the Chief of Mission for this fifth Electoral Observation Mission that the OAS has deployed in Guyana. Guyana has a population of eight hundred thousand people, and voters will elect 65 representatives of the National Assembly, members of the ten Regional Democratic Councils, and the President of the country. The Mission will arrive in Guyana one week before the elections.

This is not Senator Shoman's first rodeo – so to speak – because in 2011 she headed an electoral mission to observe general elections in Jamaica.