A mix-up in the computer system at the Advertising Department of the Guyana Chronicle was responsible for the incorrect names and photographs of persons seeking naturalisation status here being published recently.

General Manager (ag) of the Guyana National Newspapers Limited (GNNL) ,Ms Donna Todd explained that the incorrect information published on the individuals seeking naturalisation in Guyana was corrected within the days immediately after they were first carried.

She reiterated that the errors were genuine mistakes which were corrected immediately.

The issue surrounds two notices which were published during the months of February and March respectively.

On February 6 and 7, 2019 , a notice in the form of an advertisement bearing the name of Daniel Garcia Farres of Cemetery Road in Georgetown was published in the daily newspaper. That information was the CORRECT version of another advertisement which was published on February 4 and 5, 2019.

On the latter dates, the photograph of Mr Farres was incorrectly placed next to the name Gabriel St Juste of Mahaicony.

A similar mistake was made in March.

On March 29 and 30, 2019 , another naturalisation notice  in the name of Hajime Beltran Abreu of Owen Street, Kitty Georgetown was published in the daily newspaper.

That information was a CORRECTION of a similar advertisement which was published on March 27 , 2019 when Mr Abreu’s information appeared next to the name Rubesh Abdus of Tabatinga, Lethem.

The management of the GNNL disputed comments made by the Opposition this week regarding the notices.

It was noted that although Opposition Leader, Bharrat Jagdeo has indicated that the party was researching the issue, the group failed to notice the corrected copies of the persons seeking naturalisation status were published following the mistakes.

The GNNL management also noted that steps were immediately taken to ensure that there were no recurrence of such mistakes.