I would like to congratulate Mr. Khurshid Sattaur and the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) for upgrading the operations at the agency as well as making the agency more people friendly. Commendation is also in place for the agency’s modern and efficient upgrade of the motor vehicle licence department. I know it has not been easy going for the Commissioner having to deal with politically motivated hostile forces within and without the GRA who are counter productive to any changes he might want to institute. But we know that Mr. Sattaur is an astute gentleman who has weathered the storm and has worked assiduously for the cause of this nation’s leading revenue collection agency.
My discourse today however centres on the recent move to have a system of coded, vehicular licence plates. I believe this is a wise move which will greatly reduce, if not bring to an end the incidence of the switching of plates by criminal elements. This marks a significant development in the crime prevention plan by the government to rid the nation of this fast developing scourge.
We live in a modern era; hence, I would like to make the suggestion that the agency has everything that is computerized properly stored for easy access. I go one step further in making the suggestion to revamp the entire process of licence plating. Could we adopt the system of the issuance of number plates, based on the location or county of the owner?  Let’s simplify the process by adopting the three county’s method having   A (followed by the requisite number) to represent vehicular registrants from Berbice. In like manner B would signify vehicular registrants for Essequibo and those from the county of Demerara,C. I have come up with the preceding system so as not to confuse that which obtains at the present time.
I believe that the proposed system enuciated above would bring a more orderly arrangement and further enhance the process.