WITHIN the next two months, it is expected that all State owned vehicles will be affixed with Cooperative Republic of Guyana (CRG) registration number plates, Minister of State Joseph Harmon told the Government Information Agency during an interview on Thursday. He explained that the CRG number plates will serve to easily indentify vehicles which are registered to the State.
“You will not have the situation where private number plates are on vehicles, and therefore they can be abused by persons,” he said.

Given the current challenges faced by the new Government in recovering some of the assets, including vehicles, misappropriated by officials linked to the previous Administration, Minister Harmon said, “As soon as you see a CRG number plate, you know that it is a State vehicle, so it is going to be easing and aiding in the identification of State owned vehicles”.
He added that the new system will also make obsolete those vehicles which belong to the State, but which people are holding under private number plates. “We will assign CRG numbers to those vehicles….Once you have a CRG registered vehicle, but you have a private number plate on it, then the police can actually go and seize that vehicle from you, because it belongs to the State”.
All vehicles which will be purchased in the future for use by the State and State agencies will be fitted with the CRG registration.
It was explained by Minister Harmon that following the presentation of a proposal to Cabinet, the move was approved.
The Guyana Revenue Authority has also made a proposal as to how this will be accomplished. Minister Harmon said that once some minor adjustments to the Motor Vehicle regulations are completed to facilitate this change, “I think within a month or two, we will start doing that (affixing CRG number plates)”. (GINA)