The Vital Statistics unit, an essential arm of the organization, continued its pivotal role of ensuring that the Agency achieves its objectives through the registration of vital events of births, deaths and marriages.

Throughout the 2004/2005 financial year the unit assisted in the accurate and timely delivery of data on Vital Statistics to it’s stakeholders including STATIN (Statistical Institute of Jamaica and PIOJ (Planning Institute of Jamaica).

Eighty-one thousand four hundred and thirty-eight (81,438) registrations were recorded from April 2004 to March 2004, this represents the total number of registrations for the fiscal year, while eighty-three thousand eight hundred and sixty (83,860) registrations were recorded during the calendar year January to December 2004.

Six hundred and forty-nine (649) Registry Weddings were conducted by the Registrar General’s Department during the year. The Registry Wedding service continues to surpass the annual targets.

This success at the Head Office Location has not however been replicated at the Regional Offices. At the end of the year targets for the Regional Offices remained unfavourable.

The South East Regional office in Half Way Tree by the second quarter of the fiscal year, had far outgrown its physical capacity to accommodate customers. As a result the office was relocated to a more spacious facility at 4 Trevennion Park Road.

In keeping with the drive to decentralize services, the Agency opened three (3) new regional offices in the 2004/2005 financial year. A South Western Regional Office has been opened in Santa Cruz, St. Elizabeth, an Eastern Regional Office in Port Antonio, Portland and a West South Western Regional Office in Savanna–la-mar, Westmoreland.  These locations have been providing easier access to RGD’s services island wide.