The flagship project for the Ministry of Citizenship for 2016 is the complete digitizing of records at the General Registrar Office (GRO), according to Minister Winston Felix.
He informed that this initiative has already started in a small way. “We already have been doing the records from 1987 to this point. I think we were somewhere in the 1990s,” he said.
Felix stressed that the intention is to “capture and digitize all the records we have there and provide such a database that would enable us to retrieve records faster. We will be able to provide birth certificates much faster and we