Georgetown: Guyana Elections Commission has registered 27,000 new persons during the ongoing fourth cycle of registration
The curtains for the fourth cycle of registration which commenced in January this year will come down on Saturday May 18.
In this regard, GECOM along with the two main political parties have issued calls for persons who have not yet been registered and are eligible to come forward and do so with just three days remaining.
Gecom reiterated that anyone who will be 14 years or older by June 30, 2013, and is a Guyanese citizen by birth, descent, naturalization, or is a citizen from a commonwealth country living in Guyana for one year or more, is eligible for registration.
Persons eligible for registration are required to visit the registration office in their area of residence to apply for registration.
They must also be in possession of an original birth certificate or original naturalisation certificate, original marriage certificate and original deed poll in the case of a name change or marriage.
Baptismal certificates, expired passports, photocopies of relevant documents or letters from priests, elders, head masters, village captains/touchous and justices of the peace and existing ID cards will not be acceptable as source documents for registration.
According to the Commission’s Public Relations Officer Vishnu Persaud, so far persons have been forthcoming while pointing to concerns in relation to the acquisition of source documents.
This he reminded is completely out of GECOM’S ambit.
He reminded that it is the civic duty and legal responsibility of all Guyanese who meet the eligibility requirements to apply for registration during this cycle of continuous registration.
Persons eligible for registration could be prosecuted, fined and even sent to prison for failing or refusing to apply for registration.
The Guyana Elections Commission is also distributing national identification cards from all of its permanent and temporary registration offices in all of the ten administrative regions across Guyana.
Persons who were registered during previous registration exercises are urged to collect their new ID cards if they have not done so as yet.
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