February 4, 2021
A hybrid national identification card to be introduced in Barbados in a matter of weeks will have a mobile application version, and there is the possibility of citizens being able to use it for travel, officials said Wednesday.
The officials discussed the benefits of the Barbados national digital ID, which is to be rolled out by the end of March, at an online forum hosted by the Barbados International Business Association (BIBA), in association with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), under the theme
e-Readiness: Digital ID.
Antonio Lythcott, Project Manager in the Ministry of Innovation, Science and Smart Technology acknowledged that the current two-week lockdown affected the planned introduction of the digital ID. But he gave an assurance that an aggressive education campaign would be introduced in the coming days.