The digitizing of records at the General Register Office (GRO) is now set to be completed by 2020, according to Minister of Citizenship, Winston Felix who says that the delivery of printed birth certificates is one of the aims.
“That (the digitizing project) is still on. That’s the digitization where we are now digitizing the records so that we can start off by getting a printed birth certificate”, he told the Sunday Stabroek.
As it stands, the required details such as names, place of birth and names of both parents are manually written on birth certificates by the GRO staff. This process is very time consuming.
