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GECOM announces 27,000 registrants to date in fourth cycle

May 17, 2013 News

 

–    Period ends tomorrow

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has registered approximately 27,000 new persons during the ongoing fourth cycle of registration and is aiming to surpass 30,000 registrants. The cycle which commenced in January ends tomorrow.
During the period, Permanent Registration Offices opened from Monday to Friday 09:00hrs to 13:00hrs and 14:30hrs to 18:00hrs. Temporary Registration Offices operated from Monday to Friday 15:30hrs to 19:00hrs. All offices will operate tomorrow from 10:00hrs to 14:00hrs.
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.
GECOM emphasised that it is the civic duty and legal responsibility of all Guyanese who meet the eligibility requirements to apply for registration.  By so doing, persons would also be ensuring that they are included on the official lists of electors for future elections.
The commission also noted that it is obligatory for persons who meet the registration criteria to apply for registration. Persons eligible for registration could be prosecuted, fined and/or even sent to prison for failing or refusing to apply.  In the case of eligible persons under the age of 18 years by the qualifying date, the parents/guardians could be prosecuted for failure/refusal to apply for registration.
GECOM is also distributing National Identification Cards from all of its permanent and temporary Registration Offices in all of the ten Administrative Regions.  Persons who were registered during previous Registration Exercises are urged to collect their new ID cards if they have not done so as yet.
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/toshaos and justices of the peace and existing ID cards will not be acceptable as source documents for registration.

 

 

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