More than a thousand Guimarasnons have availed of free registration of their legal documents through the mobile registrations of the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) – Guimaras Provincial Statistical Office in partnership with the five Local Civil Registry Offices (LCROs) in the island province conducted from January to February this year.

Provincial Statistics Officer Nelida B. Losare said the series of mobile registrations were planned out for the whole province of Guimaras since the start of the year and as one of the activities prepared for the 31st Civil Registration Month celebration in February, where the LCROs, with the support of their local chief executives, offered for free to all Guimarasnons.

Losare said all the 1,257 recipients acquired their certificates of live birth for free while some of them requested for their certificates of marriage and even certificates of death of their family members.

“Most of the late live birth registrants were senior citizens due to their need of a birth certificate for the PhilSys step 2 registration while some of them requested corrections for the erroneous entries of their civil registry documents,” Losare added.

The highest number of recipients  of the mobile registrations were from the municipality of   Jordan, with 411 individuals, followed by Sibunag with 367, Nueva Valencia with 246 and Buenavista 233 persons comprising 18.54 percent of the total Guimarasnons who benefited of the free mobile registration program of the government.

“The LCROs, PSA, and the local officials of Guimaras province will not stop on their campaign until the goal of having zero unregistered vital events in the province will be achieved, though the 31st CRM celebration in the province concluded on February 26, 2021 the activities for the Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) decade continue until 2024,” she said.

She also encouraged residents of Guimaras to take advantage of the chance given by their local officials to process and be registered for free.

“We need the cooperation and unity of every local government unit in Guimaras to raise awareness of Guimarasnons on the importance of having a registered birth certificate and other legal civil registry documents,” said Losare.JSC/laf/PIA6 Iloilo