UNICEF sponsors registration drive; health districts to be computerized in Dominica

Dominica is receiving over $100,000 from the United Nations Children Fund (UNCEF) to embark upon a registration drive of people who were never registered in the nation’s records.

Deputy Registrar Osie Walsh says individuals whose records were burnt in the 1979 fire will also get the opportunity to re-register.

“We are going to register every single person in Dominica who is deserving of child register and who is not on the register list. That will include persons who were registered whose records were burnt by fire in 1979 and who never took the opportunity to re-register. While the UNICEF monies are primarily focus on registration of those who were never registered, we are going to use the opportunity to re-register those who never took the time to come to re-register” he said.

Meantime every health district will be computerized in Dominica.

“We requested assistance from UNICEF and we will be computerizing the major aspect of every health district in Dominica. We will be putting about seven computers around the island. We will be training village council clerks as to how to use and enter information in the computer. We are also going to link the computers to ours at the registry. We want to do that before the end of the year,” he explained.

The money will be used by the registry department for that purpose.

He said re-registration is going to be free.

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2 Comments

  1. talking for clerks
    October 21, 2011

    “WE be training Village Council Clerks as to how to use and enter information into the computer”
    I do hope that there will be a stipend to be paid to the Clerks for the extra work. Clerks were told that they would be receiving a stipend for the registering of births and deaths within their community and up to this present time nothing has been paid to those Clerks who have already started 9 years ago.

  2. only
    October 20, 2011

    Not a good idea to be registered with the globalists so that they can better track you and your children.

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