President wants land, commercial registries computerised, updated copyright laws

Registrar of Commerce (ag) Nicole Prince (left) shows President David Granger some of the documents located in the Commercial Registry. Looking on are Attorney General Basil Williams (third from left) and Minister of State Joseph Harmon (fourth left). The Commercial Registry is located above the Land Registry in the former New Building Society (NBS) building on the Avenue of the Republic. (Keno George photo)

The Commercial and Land registries must be fully computerised as part of a wider modernisation process to protect documents from flood, fire and tampering, according to President David Granger, who yesterday also called for updated copyright laws to protect the creative community.

“We are now in a modern era and the management of these two registries must aim at the complete computerisation of their entire systems…must be characterised by staff, staff that is educated, staff that is competent, staff that is honest and ‘unbribable,’” he said during the commissioning of the building which