GECOM’s seventh cycle of continuous registration successful so far – PRO
GECOM’s newly-appointed PRO Richard Francois
GECOM’s newly-appointed PRO Richard Francois

THE Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) seventh cycle of continuous registration is going “excellently,” GECOM’s Public Relations Officer (PRO), Richard Francois has revealed. 

The seventh cycle of continuous registration commenced on November 30th and will allow persons the opportunity to register for the first time, conduct transfers and make changes to their registration details.
According to Francois, the exercise is one which has seen much progress as 3,116 new registrants have been added to the National Register of Registrants (NRR). Of these, he assured that 95.8 per cent has been verified, with the remaining 4.2 per cent to be thoroughly examined.
As it relates to the total number of transfers recorded in this seventh cycle, the PRO disclosed that the amount was some 550 transfers with 611 total changes also recorded.
Though he could not have confirmed a total amount for the NRR to date, Francois gave the assurance that the ongoing process is one which is transparent and has been successful to date. To this extent, he sought to encourage those who have not been registered to do so at the soonest possible time.
At the end of the sixth cycle of continuous registration, in the latter part of June, there were registrations of some 14,981 new persons, 14,942 of whom have already been verified. There were also 2,004 transfers, owing to issues related to changes of address, and 2,747 changes/corrections to existing registration information.
GECOM has advised that persons wishing to make use of the continuous registration process must be in possession of the relevant source documents as might be necessary to support their applications for registration. These are original birth certificate issued by the General Register Office or a valid Guyana Passport; original marriage certificate (and original birth certificate) – in the case of a name change by way of marriage; original deed poll and original birth certificate – in the case of any change of name by deed poll; and original naturalisation certificate issued by the Home Affairs Ministry and original birth certificate/valid passport – in the case of naturalisation. Evidence (photocopy/duplicate) of an application having been made for naturalisation will not be accepted.

NOT ACCEPTABLE
Baptismal certificates, expired passports, photocopies of relevant documents or letters from priests, elders, headmasters, village captains/toshaos and Justices of the Peace or existing ID cards will not be acceptable as source documents for registration.
Persons who were already registered could, if necessary, apply for a name change in the case of the change of name(s) by marriage or deed poll, since they were registered; or apply for correction(s) if there is incorrect information on their National ID cards; or apply for a transfer if they have changed their addresses since they were last registered.
Additionally, persons who are already registered could request that their photographs be re-taken if the quality of the photograph on their ID cards is unacceptable, or collect their new ID cards if they have not done so as yet.
GECOM has 28 permanent registration offices located in the 10 administrative regions. Persons are required to visit the registration office that is responsible for the registration of persons in their area of residence to apply for registration or uplift their National Identification Card if they were previously registered and have not done so as yet.

(By Ravin Singh)

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