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Many young Amerindians are not registered

Feb 03, 2011 Letters

DEAR EDITOR,
After doing a fan out exercise on behalf of the Alliance for Change, I found that many young people, who ought to be voting for the first time, are not registered.
I have done work on the entire Barama River from Santa Cruz, to Waikabary, Chinese Landing, Cookerrite, and Kariako.
I have also done work in Santa Rosa and found some people registered and received their ID cards but with many errors. This information was brought to the attention of GECOM Regional Representative and very little progress to date.
What the Indigenous brothers and sisters are telling me is that GECOM would come, but the notice period to the village and missions were inadequate resulting in low turn out to the registration centres. Most people have to walk an average of 8-10 miles or to travel long distances by boat to get to the GECOM officers. Because of the short notice, people just do not bother to come out since they have to work for a living.
This administrative laziness by GECOM forces people to opt-out of the process of getting involved in democracy. This is democracy PPP style.
I call on the President of Guyana and GECOM to look into this matter of deliberately denying the people the right to vote, especially our Indigenous people.
Mark Atkinson

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