Dear Editor,

The distribution of National ID cards has commenced. Everyone who was registered during the house-to-house exercise is to be issued with an ID card. The ID card is of a good quality and is impressive, but in my case and that of others I have spoken to, the photograph on it is bad. Some are ashamed of the photograph printed on their ID card.

Some of the photographs are very dark, others are blurred or have too much light in addition to several other photographic issues. After finding out from a GECOM official about getting my picture corrected or my photograph even retaken, I was told there would be a claims and objection period for this.

Editor, GECOM has spent so much money on training and the purchase of expensive digital cameras and printers to photograph people all over the country, and they still seem not to get it right. It just means more time, money and resources to correct all the bad photographs taken.

GECOM should have done better.

Yours faithfully,
Latchman Sukdeo