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GECOM willing to uplift left-behind ID cards

Jul 21, 2010 News

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) says it is willing to uplift National Identification Cards left behind at business places by citizens.
According to the Commission, it is aware that many persons inadvertently leave their ID cards which they might have visited to conduct personal business transactions.
These include places like commercial banks, offices of the National Insurance Scheme, post offices and insurance companies, among others.
“There are also cases wherein persons lose their ID Cards due to robbery perpetrated on them.  This situation has led to a significant number of applications for replacement ID Cards being made of GECOM.”
The loss of ID cards, while placing the respective citizens at great disadvantage, puts unnecessary burden on GECOM in terms of human and material resources to process the applications for and the production/issuance of replacement ID Cards, the entity said in a statement.
“In view of the foregoing, GECOM calls upon all public and private institutions at which ID cards might have inadvertently been left, and all citizens who may come into possession of ID cards issued in the name of persons unknown to them, to surrender any/all such ID Cards to the nearest GECOM Registration Office.”
Alternatively, public and private institutions could call GECOM to make arrangements for GECOM to uplift the ID cards, as might be appropriate.
“ID cards returned to GECOM would be sorted and sent to the respective Registration Offices responsible for the area of residence of the respective registrants.”
According to GECOM, this would facilitate the return of the ID cards to the respective registrants when they present themselves to apply for replacements, and spare the Commission the need to expend resources on the processing of relevant applications and the production of replacement ID Cards.

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