SINCE July 2012, seventeen (17) International Driving Permits have been issued by the Licence Revenue Office (LRO) of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA), according to the Ministry of Home Affairs (MoHA) yesterday. The MoHA understands that some persons were disappointed that the countries they wished to visit were not covered by the International Driving Permit, thus accounting for why the number of licences issued to date is less than what was anticipated.
It must be noted that Guyana is a party to the 1968 Vienna Convention on Road Traffic, which provides for the issuance of International Driving Permits. Article 48 of the 1968 Vienna Convention on Road Traffic provides that, upon its entry into force, the Convention shall terminate and replace, in relations between the contracting parties, the following:
1926 Paris International Convention relative to Motor Traffic;
1926 Paris International Convention relative to Road Traffic;
1943 Washington Convention on the regulation of Inter-American Automotive Traffic; and 1949 Geneva Convention on Road Traffic.
Many of the countries that are not parties to the 1968 Vienna Convention on Road Traffic remain parties to the 1949 Geneva Convention on Road Traffic, including Barbados, Canada, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, United States of America, United Kingdom, Argentina and Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
Most countries of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) are not parties to either the 1949 Geneva Convention or the 1968 Vienna Convention.
Members of the public are advised to contact the Licence Revenue Office of the Guyana Revenue Authority for further information in respect to International Driving Permits.