Attorney General Dale Marshall denies that Barbadians will have to pay for the first issue of their new ID cards.

He was reacting to a recent  statement by President of the Democratic Labour Party, Dr. Ronnie Yearwood, who suggested that any fee for a national ID card would amount to, in his words, a tax to vote.

But in a statement this afternoon, Mr. Marshall rejected the notion.

But he explained that there will be a fee for replacements.

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