GECOM’s successful continuous registration process concludes at the end of November

Dear Editor,
More than 20,000 transactions are expected to be completed during the present GECOM continuous registration process. This will ensure GECOM’s readiness to produce a Register of Registrants which would facilitate the production of a Voters List to hold National and Regional Elections in 2025.
At the end of October 2023, 14,500 transactions were completed. The process is expected to gain some momentum as the closing date of November 30 approaches.
Significantly, more than 14,000 persons took the opportunity to get registered; while more than two thousand requested changes and corrections, and a further, 1,700 requested transfers.
It is indeed most encouraging to see our people, particularly our young people, showing genuine interest in getting registered and being prepared for the upcoming elections.
Meanwhile, GECOM is calling on all Guyanese who applied for Identification Cards to ensure that they collect their cards.
GECOM must be commended for providing the nation with regular updates since the continuous registration process started on July 4, 2023. The permanent registration offices in the ten administrative regions are functioning very effectively, and the different political parties have paid scrutineers working in all the offices to verify all transactions.

Identification Card
The Guyana Government must be complimented for their genuine effort to provide our people with genuine ID Cards. A reputable international organisation, Veridos, a leading global provider of integrated identity solutions, was offered a contract to produce a digital Identity Card.
In August, Prime Minister Brigadier (retd) Mark Phillips presented the Digital Identity Card Bill to the National Assembly. This genuine exercise will consolidate the biometric data of each citizen into one card, with multiple security features which would certainly offer greater protection against fraud.
The new identification card will be comprehensive. It will include a person’s name, place of birth, and photo, or facial image satisfying the requirements for a photograph. There will be an identification number, sex, citizenship, fingerprints, and signature. This card is indeed a benchmark of Guyana’s explosive development as we stride boldly along the path of 21st century technology.
The PPP/C Government is consistently doing its best to hold free and fair elections.

Sincerely,
Neil Kumar