Belizeans will now be able to apply for their birth certificate and other personal documents online, as a result of the implementation of the new Civil Registry and Vital Statistics (CRVS) System, which the Ministry of E-Governance launched in partnership with the Attorney General’s ministry, with funding from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), on Wednesday, December 10.
All Belizeans’ personal information: births, deaths, marriages, adoptions, etc., dating back over a century, had been recorded on paper and in bound ledgers; and the staff of the Vital Statistics Unit (VSU) have spent the past 4 years, painstakingly and meticulously entering this information into a digital database, which may now be accessed through the secure online portal, Prime Minister John Briceño explained at the launch.
