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Head of General Register Office sent on leave

Oct 25, 2015 News

Registrar of the General Register Office (GRO), Greta Mc Donald, has reportedly been sent on leave after reportedly clashing with senior Government officials, recently.
Minister of Citizenship, Winston Felix, would only confirm yesterday that Mc Donald was asked to proceed on leave from October 6 following a number of internal issues.
Mc Donald, who reportedly served as Registrar for Births, Deaths and Marriages for almost a decade and half, is on 42 days of leave, an official of the Ministry of the Presidency confirmed yesterday.
Kaieteur News was told that Government and the newly established Ministry of Citizenship, headed by Felix, had reportedly been handling a number of complaints regarding Birth and Marriage certificates.
Another incident had also to do with the embarrassment of two female staffers that the Registrar reportedly attempted to transfer from her office.
She reportedly refused to take back the staffers when instructed to do so, prompting the Public Service Commission to become involved in the matter.
According to the official from the Ministry of the Presidency, while Mc Donald’s leave is expected to run out next month, it is unlikely she will return as Registrar. A recommendation has been made not to renew her contract which expires next August.
The David Granger administration, since taking office in May, has announced sweeping reforms to the processing of births, deaths and marriages as well as to passports and work permits.
The Ministry of Citizenship has been created to oversee and manage the reforms.
There are ambitious plans in stream to digitalise the records of GRA, going back to over 100 years.
Over the years, there have been complaints of the workings of GRO, with citizens critical of missing records, bribes being paid and delays in the processing of documents.

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