Kwakwani residents benefit from GRO registration exercise

Earlier this week, residents of Kwakwani, Berbice River were able to get registered for birth, marriage and death certificates hassle free when the General Registrar’s Office (GRO) held a registration exercise in the community.
The residents were also able to do late registrations and have the minor errors on their existing certificates corrected. The registration exercise was undertaken by the GRO so as to save the residents the time, money and hassle of travelling to Linden or Georgetown to have this done.
GRO Searcher Transcribers Lisa Major, Arianne Williams and Sherry Jerome were responsible for this venture, and they related that the initiative which lasted two days, saw many residents coming from near and far to apply for their various certificates. Major related that such an exercise has not been conducted in quite some time, and that she was very happy to be able to assist the residents. “We achieved what we came to do. People are happy and we are happy,” the woman stated.
Many residents who were never registered, and as such never possessed a birth certificate, took the opportunity to apply for the crucial document. The registration exercise will continue and these services will be made available to communities along the Berbice River. Those persons interested in applying for a certificate; be it birth, marriage or death, will have to pay an application fee of $300 per certificate.
The GRO is a body which falls under the Department of Citizenship and Immigration Services in the Ministry of the Presidency that aims at maintaining and securing national registers and registration forms of birth, death and marriages of Guyanese people, and of foreigners living in Guyana and to supply members of the public with these document upon request with minimum delay.