30 centres to check electoral list

From today, the Electoral and Boundaries Commission (EBC)will have 30 registration centres set up across the island. 

It will give citizens an opportunity to check their registration status in time for the February 11 General Election as announced by Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley on Saturday.

Yesterday, chairman of the EBC, Ramon Alleyne, SC, said that they were “ready” for the big day.

“There’s no issue. Persons have the right all now to be making sure they’re on the list, coming in if there are any issues and filling out the necessary forms, all of which are available in centres that will open tomorrow [today]. So even if there are still any issues, people have the opportunity to correct them,” Alleyne said.

On January 10 Alleyne and members of the EBC held a press conference in which he reassured Barbadians the electoral system was “always in preparatory mode” as they did not “get any more notice than any other citizen or individual”. 

In November, after the EBC published a list of thousands of names to be struck from the voters’ list, there was an outcry from some citizens who said they were neither dead nor moved out of the country but yet they were to be struck off.

Yesterday, in reference to those concerns, Alleyne stated: “They just need to go online and check to make sure they’re in the right constituency. 

“If there are any issues, fill out the form, which is also online and can be filed online or, if they wish, they can go into a centre.”

The locations of the centres are expected to be given through notices.

Yesterday, President The Most Honourable Jeffrey Bostic, acting in accordance with the advice of Mottley, issued writs for the election to fill the vacant seats in the House of Assembly caused by the dissolution of Parliament. Nomination Day has been fixed for next Tuesday when all political hopefuls are expected to make it official by handing in their nomination papers, having paid their deposits.

The Barbados Labour Party won the last two General Elections in 2018 and 2022 with a clean sweep of all
30 seats under Mottley’s leadership. 

As was the case in 2018, there was a defection in 2024 with Ralph Thorne crossing the floor to become the Leader of the Opposition and then returning to the Democratic Labour Party as its eventual head. (AC)

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