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Reprint from Trinidad
Express, June 26, 2003
TSS developed LifeData® for Trinidad's Civil Registry.
LifeData® a population registry system that automates
the delivery of digitized Birth, Death, and Marriage Certificates.
The article below is a reprint from Trinadad Express Newspaper.
Camille gets first
free birth certificate
THE promise of free birth certificates
in the 2002/2003 Budget has been kept and Legal Affairs
Minister Camille Robinson-Regis was issued this country's
first computer-generated birth certificate yesterday afternoon
at Registration House.
In July 1994, the Cabinet of the then
PNM Government decided to computerise records of deaths,
marriages, births and Muslim divorces.
After nearly a decade of work, the Free
Birth Certificate programme was launched yesterday, culminating
in the issuing of the first computerised birth certificate.
As of Thursday, July 3, free computerised
birth certificates will be available for those born after
January 1, 1984.
This is just the first stage of the programme
and in January 2004 free certificates will be available
for all, according to Robinson-Regis.
The reason we chose the group of 1984
forward is because these are the people that are still
in school, doing exams and applying for jobs for the first
time, explained Suzanne Francois, Registrar General.
The first copy of these computer-generated
birth certificates is to act as an incentive to lessen
the incidence of non-registration of births and to modernise
the record-keeping process.
So far the records of all persons born
within the last 67 years have been transferred to computer
records
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