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Jun 14, 2011 News
Many residents within the Amerindian community of Wakapoa, in the Lower Pomeroon River, recently expressed concern at not being in receipt of birth certificates.
As a result they do not have an identification card. They say that they may not be able to vote in the upcoming general elections.
More concerns further linger around the non-attendance of School, in which most young Amerindians find themselves.
Ruffin Alexander is an elderly resident of the island of Myrie\Wakapoa who is caught up in this bind.
The senior citizen explained that in years prior, both he and his colleagues were allowed to cast their votes, using the old I.D. cards.
Alexander said he could not provide information about the name of his mother, since she would have died when he was about two months.
Another resident said the officers from the Guyana Elections Commission visited that area on one occasion at the beginning of the year. The males who are the breadwinners were in the interior working, since the main occupations of residents in that area are farming and logging.
One resident said this problem is an old one and it stems initially from most residents not being registered at birth.
GECOM said it had made three mobile trips in the Wakapoa community, as recent as this month.
Wakapoa has a population of 2000 and is located 28 miles from Charity.
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