THE Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) has indicated its readiness to roll out the new Cooperative Republic of Guyana (CRG) ‘number plate’ programme for all State vehicles, from October 2015. This is according to Minister of State, Joseph Harmon who was today updating the media on this issue, at his post-Cabinet press briefing.
The Minister, who announced this initiative in July 2015, explained that, “the Revenue Authority has already given me the assurance that it has the means to roll out this programme.”
The CRG number plates are introduced to bring formality to State-owned vehicles and will serve for easy identification of them.
The initiative was born out of the current challenges faced by the new Government, in recovering state owned assets; including vehicles, which were used by officials of the previous administration.
Minister Harmon did state back in July, “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.”
The new system will also make obsolete those vehicles that belong to the State, but which people are holding under private number plates. All vehicles that will be purchased in the future for use by the State and State agencies will be fitted with the CRG registration.