GECOM announces new round of continuous registration from Tuesday

GECOM announces new round of continuous registration from Tuesday

The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has announced that it will commence a continuous registration exercise from next Tuesday to the end of May.

The exercise will be conducted countrywide at all GECOM offices. In a statement, the Commission said that during this registration exercise, any person who will be 14 years and older by the 30th June, 2023, and is a
Guyanese citizen by birth, descent, naturalization, or is a citizen from a Commonwealth country living in Guyana for one year or more, can apply for registration, providing he/she was never registered.

Existing registrants who are desirous of updating their records such as a request to correct or change their names, date of birth, occupation and update their addresses are advised that those transactions would also
be facilitated during the upcoming exercise.

The Commission also said that persons desirous of conducting any registration transaction whether new registration or changes/corrections
to their particulars are required to visit the GECOM Registration Office responsible for their area of residence with their source documents which including an original Birth Certificate, valid Passport, Adoption Certificate, Naturalization Certificate or Certificate of
Registration.

Those who will be registered for the first time will also be eligible for their ID cards. Just recently, GECOM started the distribution of ID Cards from a previous registration exericse.

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