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Prime Minister, Dr. the Most Hon. Andrew Holness (left), listens attentively to Executive Director of the National Identification and Registration Authority (NIRA), Dr. Warren Vernon (right), during a recent meeting at the Office of the Prime Minister.
Prime Minister, Dr. the Most Hon. Andrew Holness (left), listens attentively to Executive Director of the National Identification and Registration Authority (NIRA), Dr. Warren Vernon (right), during a recent meeting at the Office of the Prime Minister.

Safeguards Built Into NIDS to Protect Identities

Executive Director of the National Identification and Registration Authority (NIRA), Dr. Warren Vernon, says safeguards have been built into the National Identification System (NIDS) to protect individuals’ identities. He cited the legal framework provided by the National Identification and Registration...
Prime Minister, Dr. the Most Hon. Andrew Holness (left), listens attentively to Executive Director of the National Identification and Registration Authority (NIRA), Dr. Warren Vernon (right), during a recent meeting at the Office of the Prime Minister.
Prime Minister, Dr. the Most Hon. Andrew Holness (left), listens attentively to Executive Director of the National Identification and Registration Authority (NIRA), Dr. Warren Vernon (right), during a recent meeting at the Office of the Prime Minister.

23 Post Offices Set for Major Upgrades Under NIDS Project
Prime Minister, Dr. the Most. Hon. Andrew Holness (second right), removes his newly printed National Identification (ID) Card from a machine located at the National Identification Registration Authority (NIRA) Personalisation Centre, at Central Sorting Office in Kingston, in November last year. Looking on (from left) are Executive Director of the Jamaica Council for Persons with Disabilities (JCPD), Dr. Christine Hendricks; Director General of the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ), Dr. Wayne Henry; Card Machine Operator, Rog-Jae Seymour and Chairman of NIRA, Bishop Conrad Pitkin.
Prime Minister, Dr. the Most. Hon. Andrew Holness (second right), removes his newly printed National Identification (ID) Card from a machine located at the National Identification Registration Authority (NIRA) Personalisation Centre, at Central Sorting Office in Kingston, in November last year. Looking on (from left) are Executive Director of the Jamaica Council for Persons with Disabilities (JCPD), Dr. Christine Hendricks; Director General of the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ), Dr. Wayne Henry; Card Machine Operator, Rog-Jae Seymour and Chairman of NIRA, Bishop Conrad Pitkin.

NIDS Project Gets $2.8 Billion
Governor General, His Excellency the Most Hon. Sir Patrick Allen (left), in discussion with Chairman, National Identification Registration Authority (NIRA), Bishop the Hon. Conrad Pitkin. The occasion was Friday’s (November 15) official launch of the NIRA, located at the Central Sorting Office (CSO) in Kingston, where the Governor General enrolled and received his national identification card. 
Governor General, His Excellency the Most Hon. Sir Patrick Allen (left), in discussion with Chairman, National Identification Registration Authority (NIRA), Bishop the Hon. Conrad Pitkin. The occasion was Friday’s (November 15) official launch of the NIRA, located at the Central Sorting Office (CSO) in Kingston, where the Governor General enrolled and received his national identification card. 

300 Persons to Begin Receiving NIDS Cards on November 18
Prime Minister, Dr. the Most Hon. Andrew Holness (centre), accepts his national identification card from Chairman of the National Identification Registration Authority (NIRA), Bishop the Hon. Conrad Pitkin, during the official launch of the NIRA at the Central Sorting Office (CSO) in Kingston on Friday (November 15). Looking on is Minister of Justice, Hon. Delroy Chuck (second left), and Minister of Education, Skills, Youth and Information, Senator Dr. the Hon. Dana Morris Dixon (second right).
Prime Minister, Dr. the Most Hon. Andrew Holness (centre), accepts his national identification card from Chairman of the National Identification Registration Authority (NIRA), Bishop the Hon. Conrad Pitkin, during the official launch of the NIRA at the Central Sorting Office (CSO) in Kingston on Friday (November 15). Looking on is Minister of Justice, Hon. Delroy Chuck (second left), and Minister of Education, Skills, Youth and Information, Senator Dr. the Hon. Dana Morris Dixon (second right).

Prime Minister, Their Excellencies Receive NIDS Card

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Justice Minister, Hon. Delroy Chuck, addresses a recent Social Justice Tour town hall in St. Elizabeth.
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JPs Have a Role to Play in Promoting NIDS – Minister Chuck

Minister of Justice, Hon. Delroy Chuck, says Justices of the Peace (JPs) have a role to play in promoting the National Identification System (NIDS). “We are going to be urging the over 11,000 JPs across the island to really be part of this National Identification System, to promote it, to neutralise the misinformation that will go around,” Mr. Chuck said....
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Minister without Portfolio in the Office of the Prime Minister with responsibility for Information, Skills and Digital Transformation, Senator Dr. the Hon. Dana Morris Dixon.
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Registering for NIDS is Voluntary – Minister Dixon

Minister without Portfolio in the Office of the Prime Minister with responsibility for Skills and Digital Transformation, Senator Dr. the Hon. Dana Morris Dixon, is reminding Jamaicans that registering for the national identification system (NIDS) is a voluntary exercise. NIDS, an electronic form of identification, will provide a comprehensive and secure database for capturing and storing the personal information of...
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Chief Executive Officer of the Registrar General’s Department, Charlton McFarlane, speaks at a recent  JIS Think Tank.
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Digitisation at RGD Linked to NIDS Project

The massive digitisation project being undertaken by the Registrar General’s Department (RGD) will assist with the transition to the National Identification System (NIDS). The RGD recently disclosed at a JIS Think Tank that it will be moving to digitise more than 2.4 million records as part of its modernisation process. These include birth, marriage, death, adoption and stillbirth certificates. Chief...
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Prime Minister, the Most. Hon. Andrew Holness, makes his contribution to the 2024/25 Budget Debate in the House of Representatives on March 21.
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NIDS Project Integral to Building Out Key Infrastructure to Support Secure Online Services – PM

Prime Minister, the Most. Hon. Andrew Holness, says the National Identification System (NIDS) Project has been very integral to building out the underlying public key infrastructure to support secure online services. “The NIDS project has supported the rollout of e-passports and the Electronic immigration gates (e-gates), which are now fully operational at Sangster International Airport, and has assisted greatly in...
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Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness (centre), hands over a birth certificate to Tavia Richards-Murray, guardian for Ashley Williams, one of the first recipients under the National Identification System (NIDS) ‘Operation Birthright’ Programme, that was launched at Jamaica House in Kingston on September 9, 2022. Sharing the moment are then Minister without Portfolio in the Office of the Prime Minister, Hon. Floyd Green (right); Modernisation of State Specialist, Inter-American Development Bank, Benjamin Roseth, and Representative of the Leader of the Opposition, Dr. Angela Brown-Burke.
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Operation Birthright Responds to Concern Highlighted in Report

The Government’s National Identification System (NIDS) ‘Operation Birthright’ Progamme is actively responding to a concern highlighted in the Jamaica ‘Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) 2022: Situation of Women and Children’. The report, which was launched on Friday (March 15) at the University of the West Indies (UWI) Regional Headquarters in St. Andrew, found that Jamaica has almost universal registration of...
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The national identification card, which is to be produced under the national identification system (NIDS).
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Phase One of NIDS Enrolment to Be Launched in 2024/25

The Government intends to complete and launch phase one of the National Identification System (NIDS) enrolment and issuance of national identification cards during the 2024/25 financial year. This will be done through a $1.3-billion allocation for the National Identification for Economic Growth project. Details are outlined in the 2024/25 Estimates of Expenditure, tabled in the House of Representatives by Minister...
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