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rime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness (seated second left); Minister Without Portfolio in the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM), Hon. Floyd Green (seated left); Chief Executive Officer of Fujitsu Caribbean and Latin America, Mervyn Eyre (seated second right), and Permanent Secretary in the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) and Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Audrey Sewell (seated right), sign a contract for the digitisation of public records under the National Identification System (NIDS), at the OPM on Friday (May 6). Observing in the background (standing from left) are: Chief Executive Officer of the Registrar General’s Department (RGD), Charlton McFarlane; Modernization of State Specialist, Inter-American Development Bank, Benjamin Roseth; and Programme Director for NIDS, Dr. Warren Vernon.
rime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness (seated second left); Minister Without Portfolio in the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM), Hon. Floyd Green (seated left); Chief Executive Officer of Fujitsu Caribbean and Latin America, Mervyn Eyre (seated second right), and Permanent Secretary in the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) and Ministry of Economic Growth and Job Creation, Audrey Sewell (seated right), sign a contract for the digitisation of public records under the National Identification System (NIDS), at the OPM on Friday (May 6). Observing in the background (standing from left) are: Chief Executive Officer of the Registrar General’s Department (RGD), Charlton McFarlane; Modernization of State Specialist, Inter-American Development Bank, Benjamin Roseth; and Programme Director for NIDS, Dr. Warren Vernon.

Contract Signed For Digitisation Of Records At RGD

By: Chanel Spence, May 7, 2022
Approximately two million records at the Registrar General’s Department (RGD) relating to birth, marriage, death, and adoption, created from 1930, are to be digitised under the National Identification System (NIDS)....
Minister without Portfolio in the Office of the Prime Minister, Hon. Floyd Green, addresses a sensitisation session on the National Identification System (NIDS) at the Sam Sharpe Teachers' College in Granville, St. James, on Wednesday (March 16).

Task Force To Drive Implementation Of NIDS

By: Okoye Henry, March 17, 2022
Minister without Portfolio in the Office of the Prime Minister, Hon. Floyd Green (right), addressing Tuesday’s (March 1) meeting of the Standing Finance Committee of the House of Representatives at Gordon House. At left is Minister of Finance and the Public Service, Dr. the Hon. Nigel Clarke.

Issuing Of NIDS ID Cards To Be Piloted In Corporate Area

By: Alecia Smith, March 3, 2022

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Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, completes a registration form before receiving the coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine at The Good Samaritan’s Inn in Kingston on Monday (March 22).
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PM Highlights Importance Of NIDS

Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Andrew Holness, used the occasion of receiving the coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine to advocate for the National Identification System (NIDS), noting that the registration process to...
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By: Ainsworth Morris, March 23, 2021
Minister of Justice, Hon. Delroy Chuck (seated, centre), addresses a Virtual Town Hall Meeting on the National Identification System (NIDS) on January 20. With the Minister are other Members of the Joint Select Committee who are taking part in town hall meetings to explain the National Identification & Registration Act, 2020, and to get responses from members of the public.
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Justice Minister Calls On Jamaicans To Support NIDS

Minister of Justice, Hon. Delroy Chuck, has called on Jamaicans to support the National Identification System (NIDS), as it will prevent identity theft from affecting hard-working Jamaicans whose information fall...
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