300 Jamaicans begin receiving NIDS cards

By Prince Moore    

 

Jamaicans can now contact the Central Sorting Office in Kingston to enquire about starting the process of obtaining their National Identification Cards.

 

The first 300 people enrolled in the National Identification System pilot project started receiving their cards on Monday.

 

Bishop Conrad Pitkin, Chairman of the National Identification and Registration Authority (NIRA), says other service stations will be in operation across the island by the end of January next year. 

 

"At present, contracts have been signed to modify eight additional NIRA service centres across Jamaica. We have Mandeville, Montego Bay, Falmouth, St. Ann's Bay, Ocho Rios, May Pen, Black River and Santa Cruz. These centres are expected to start [being handed] over by the end of January 2025. And then there are another 15 service centres that are in the procurement stage and we hope that by January we will start to modify these," said Bishop Pitkin, who was speaking Wednesday on Radio Jamaica's Beyond the Headlines.

 

The NIRA service centres will be located in post offices across the country.