Employees of the General Registrar’s Department may no longer have to spend hours producing documents as it is hoped by this year-end the office would be computerised, according to Minister of Home Affairs Clement Rohee.
Rohee said the computerisation of the department would be among his ministry’s main objectives this year, adding that staff members had performed well under difficult circumstances.
For last year, he said, some 247,000 birth certificates were produced, an increase of 46,000 over the amount produced last year.
And 28,000 marriage certificates were produced along with 20,000 death certificates.
The minister said that during last year training was done for marriage officers and staff attached to the department.
Its high time that all govt departments,agencies, etc,etc be computirised. IT is very important in these time we are living in.
Because of the importance of vital statistics world wide, I welcome this as progress, I am glad that the people can now access their legal documents without waiting for months, some even years. Thank you Mr Rohee.
Finally! SN this should be a headline news article! Moreover, it should go something like this:
Hear ye, Hear ye, good citizens of Guyana. Your vital statistics will now be recorded and accessible “electronically” via the General Registrar’s Department. Please be aware of the following:
1. You are no longer required to bribe anyone for non existent or fabricated birth certificates…we have the real thing recorded right here.
2. Our newly computerized system will “ALMOST” guarantee that you are who you are and not anyone else. Henceforth, we will not tolerate your insistence to the otherwise or your verbal abuse of our staff. Take it up with a judge.
3. All marriages and divorces occurring in Guyana are dutifully recorded and available to the public. Therefore any subsequent marriage overseas or otherwise that occurs prior to dissolution of previous marriage or during a current marriage is subject to criminal prosecution. Yes! Electronically means we can have your records made available to a local attorney, a hobo, or the USCIS with the push of a button. Think twice, Bro-Ham, think twice!
Nice….. I am rolling with laughter on the floor!!!
I don’t believe in this day and age we are writing in LEDGERS in Guyana, in the poorest of countries like Haiti, these departments are computerized a long ,long time ago.Come on Guyana you are way behind, and it’s time to catch up real fast.Computers are very cheap these days, come on now.
as i see it the whole country should be computerised,guyana must be the only country in the carribean that is not a 100% computerised, i may be wrong but the fact is that guyana is so far behind.
It would be very interesting to know just how far back in time records in relation to birth and deaths in Guyana can be achieved based on the proposed computerized method! How far back would one be able to easily and quickly trace his or her Guyanese roots…..
It’s like 2009. Computers have been in existence like forever duhhh!
Only now they are realizing they need to get this area automated. No wonder dead people are somehow alive and can vote! HAHAHA.