NASSAU, The Bahamas – Bahamas Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Public Service the Hon. Fred Mitchell and Mr. James A. Ram, president of Indusa Global, LLC, a South Carolina-based IT development and consulting firm, signed contracts, on December 22, for the provision of e-passports, biometric visas, work permits and other identity documents, as well as a border control management system.
For the project, Indusa has partnered with the Malaysian global security solution provider, Iris Berhad, and the British company, De La Rue, a long-time provider of the Bahamian passport and the world’s largest security provider and papermaker.
Minister Mitchell said that the first set of new passports are expected to be issued by September 2007, with the visas expected to be available earlier.
The new passports will be machine-readable with chip-based biometric authentication for fingerprints, facial characteristics and signature capture, he added.
