The council keeps the island's own register of households and residents, and most of the letters people need are drawn from it.
What the desk issues: a letter confirming your address, a letter confirming who lives in a household, a certified copy of an entry in the council's own register, and a letter of introduction for an application somewhere else.
Bring your identity document. If the letter is for somebody else, bring a signed note from them as well, and we will keep it with the request. A letter drawn from a file that is already here is usually done the same day. Anything that needs a record from another office takes as long as that office takes, and we will tell you which one it is.
Twenty rufiyaa for a letter, thirty for a certified copy. Nothing at all for a letter a school or the hospital has asked for.