Cash grant distribution in coastal regions, Region 10 to begin on Feb 15

Last Updated on Friday, 7 February 2025, 23:41 by Writer

Residents of the five coastal regions and Region 10 (Upper Demerara-Upper Berbice) will from February 15 begin receiving government’s GY$100,000 cash grant from February 15, Finance Secretary Sukrishnalall Pasha said.

The official said notices of the distribution centres would be published next week for residents in Region 2 (Pomeroon-Supenaam), Region 3 (West Demerara-Essequibo Islands), Region 4 (Demerara-Mahaica), Region 5 (Mahaicony-West Berbice), Region 6 (East Berbice-Corentyne) and Region 10.

“We are trying to split up the centres in such a way so that at no centre you will have a big crowd and we don’t want people to be waiting too long,” he told Demerara Waves Online News. Mr Pasha further stated that the cheques would be in alphabetical order and would be delivered at the designated centres by villages.

At the same time, according to Mr Pasha, the government would keep two registration centres—Umana Yana, Kingston, and the Gymnasium, Mandela Avenue—open to facilitate continuous registration from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The Finance Secretary encouraged Guyanese to check their registration status by visiting https://cg.gov.gy/track and, if they are not registered, to do so as soon as possible.

So far, 240,000 of the 274,000 cash grant eligible persons in the coastal regions and Region 10 have registered so far, and the intention is to complete that process by next Wednesday.

Official records indicate that so far almost 121,000 persons countrywide have received their cash grant cheques. Mr Pasha said the government had put cheque distribution in Region 4 “on pause because we didn’t want people to turn up and there were no cheques for them.”

With the 2025 National Budget having been passed and the Appropriations Act having been signed into law by President Irfaan Ali, the Finance Secretary said the way was now clear for cheques to be printed in keeping with the financial laws.

The Finance Secretary said that so far 600,000 persons have registered for the cash grant and of that number 570,000 have been already verified.