Media Releases

The Elections and Boundaries Commission (EBC) wishes to advise the public that its Arima Registration Area Office, located at 16-17 Pro Queen Street, Arima will be closed on Wednesday 28^th April, 2021 at noon for sanitization.

The Arima Registration Area Office will reopen to the public on Monday 3^rd May, 2021. Only persons collecting national identification cards will be accommodated. No other transactions will be conducted until further advised.

All persons with confirmed appointments for the Arima Registration Office will be contacted to have their appointments rescheduled.

The EBC apologizes for the inconvenience that the temporary closure of this office may cause and gives the public the assurance that all is being done in the interest of public health and safety.

EBC’s temporary closure of its Arima Office

Please be advised that we have closed our Siparia Registration Area Office at 14, Mary Street, Siparia this afternoon for sanitization.

The office will re-open to the public on Wednesday 28th April, 2021.

For further details, please see the Press release in this link:

EBC’s Temporary Closure of its Siparia Registration Area Office

The Elections and Boundaries Commission (EBC) advises of the temporary closure of both its Chaguanas Registration Area Office and its Couva/Tabaquite/Talparo Registration Area Sub-Office, located at 47 Mulchan Seuchan Road, Chaguanas from April 22-23, 2021.

The temporary closure has become necessary to facilitate sanitization of these offices. All persons with confirmed appointments for these specific Registration Offices between today, Thursday 22^nd April and tomorrow, Friday 23^rd April, 2021 will be contacted to have their appointments rescheduled.

The EBC apologizes for the inconvenience that the temporary closure of these offices may cause and gives the public the assurance that all is being done in the interest of public health and safety.

Normal operations at these offices will resume on Monday 25^th April, 2021.

EBC’s Temporary Closure of its Chaguanas and Couva Tab Tal offices

Please be advised that our Sangre Grande Registration Area Office, which is located at 355 Brierley Street, Sangre Grande will be closed, today, April 20th, 2021.

The closure of this Office for today ONLY has become necessary, as the Trinidad and Tobago Electricity Commission has advised it will undertake overhead line clearance work and there will be an interruption in the supply of electricity to the area that will affect operations at our Office.

The EBC apologizes for any inconvenience this temporary closure may cause.  The Sangre Grande Registration Area Office will resume normal operations on Wednesday, April 21, 2021.

The Elections and Boundaries Commission (EBC) advises that its Princes Town Registration Area Office, located at 145 High Street, Princes Town, (Corner Naparima Mayaro Road & St. Croix Rd.) will be closed to the public from April 15^th -16^th, 2021.

The temporary closure of this Office has become necessary to facilitate sanitization of the building. All persons with confirmed appointments for this specific Registration Area Office between today, Thursday 15^th April and tomorrow, Friday 16^th April, 2021 will be contacted to have their appointments rescheduled.

For the full fetails of this Press Release, please go to this link:

EBC’s Temporary Closure of its Princes Town Office

The Elections and Boundaries Commission wishes to advise the public that its Call Centre, Administrative Offices, Port of Spain/Laventille Registration Area Office and Diego Martin Registration Area Offices located at Scott House, 134-138, Frederick Street, Port of Spain, will be closed on Friday 9^th April, 2021.

The closure of these offices have become necessary to facilitate sanitization of the building, as a member of staff, has reportedly tested positive for Covid-19. All members of staff who have been in contact with the affected staff member will be tested and the EBC will be working with the relevant units of the Ministry of Health to start contact tracing.

For the full Press Release, please use this link:

Press Release – EBC closes Head Office for sanitization REVISED

The public is advised that the Elections and Boundaries Commission has had to cease operations today, Wednesday 7th April, 2021 at its Tunapuna Registration Office, located at the Administrative Complex, Eastern Main Road, Tunapuna.

This closure, at this office ONLY has become necessary due to a water issue at the Complex, which has not been resolved. All persons with confirmed appointments for the renewal of expired National Identification Cards will be contacted to reschedule these appointments.

The Commission apologizes for any inconvenience that this disruption to our operations may cause and will advise of the reopening of this office once the issue has been resolved.

The Elections and Boundaries Commission wishes to advise that its Couva Registration Area Office, located at the TECU Building, Ground Floor, 80-82 Southern Main Road, Couva, will be closed to the public this weekend, Saturday 20th and Sunday 21st March, 2021.

The closure of this Office ONLY on this weekend, has become necessary to facilitate on-going electrical work in the building.

Persons with appointments carded for this Saturday, March 20th, 2021 will be contacted to have these appointments rescheduled.

All Senior Citizens, who need to conduct renewal of ID card transactions at the Couva Registration Area Office on this Sunday ONLY, are invited to walk-in, no appointment needed during the upcoming week of March 22-26, 2021.

The EBC apologies for any inconvenience that the disruption of this weekend service may cause and advises that normal hours of operation will resume at the Couva Registration Area Office on Monday 22nd March, 2021

The Chief Election Officer is required by law, to notify the public, by publication in at least one (1) newspaper, of a return of the election expenses of a candidate, who contested an election, within ten days of receipt from the candidate’s election agent.

This notice, as set out in section 58 of the Representation of the People Act, Chapter 2:01 provides the date on which the return and declaration were received by the Chief Election Officer and also provides the public with information on the days and times when these documenents can be inspected by members of the public, if so desired.

The summary of the return of election expenses for the 2021 Tobago House of Assembly and Local Government Bye-Elctions can be found here:

Summary of Return of Election Expenses for the 2021 THA and LGE-Byes

The Elections and Boundaries Commission advises of a temporary disruption to its “walk-in” service for Senior Citizens at the Couva Registration Area Office ONLY on Sunday 7^th March, 2021.

The EBC is aware of the overwhelming response to this Sunday “walk-in” service and are pleased to accommodate our affected Senior Citizens this Saturday, March 6^th 2021 at our Couva Registration Area Office.

The temporary disruption of this service on this Sunday has become necessary to facilitate electrical work being conducted in the TECU Building, in which the Couva Registration Area Office is housed.

The EBC apologizes for any inconvenience this temporary disruption may cause and advise that normal operations at the Couva Registration area Office will resume on Monday 8^th March, 2021.