GREAT BAY, St. Maarten (GIS) – The Civil Registry Department on Pond Island is calling on residents to make sure that the office has their correct physical residential address on file.
This is in preparation for the upcoming Netherlands Antilles Parliamentary elections scheduled for January 22, 2010. In order to receive your voting card, the department has to have the correct address of every eligible voter which would allow them then to participate in the elections by making use of their right to vote.
Persons move from one address to the next and fail to inform the Civil Registry Department of this change. Everybody is required to notify the department of their new address.
Friday, October 23 is the last day that any changes can be made to the voting registry.
In order to facilitate persons who need to update the office as to their current residential address, a special window will be open as of Tuesday, October 20 to Friday, October 23 from 8.00am to 6.00pm.
You are requested to make use of this opportunity. For further information you can call the Civil Registry Department at 542-2457.
