People’s Progressive Party (PPP) General Secretary Clement Rohee says if the General Register Office (GRO) is not supplying the required information in order to ensure the removal of deceased persons from the National Register of Registrants, then the laws governing the process would need to be changed.
Rohee, whose is responsible for the GRO in his capacity as Home Affairs Minister, was reluctant to cast aspersions on the failings of the GRO to provide information.
“The GRO will only send information to Gecom [Guyana Elections Com-mission] based on its records,” he said, during a press briefing at Freedom House yesterday.
“Gecom will have to think seriously about changing the laws, because if no one has gone to the GRO to register the death nor to get a death certificate, which details would be sent to Gecom to take those name off the list, then two things have to happen—you either have to consider changing the laws to ensure
