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Dec 13, 2012 News
…$35 M spent
The New Amsterdam Magistrates’ Court is collapsing after millions of dollars were spent and the building handed over to the authorities less than a month ago.
Kaieteur News’ Berbice correspondent, Samuel Whyte, reported that portions of the ceiling kept falling on litigants and that he escaped injury “by the skin of his teeth.”
The staff and litigants were there around 15:40 hrs on Wednesday in what they considered the newly refurbished multi-million-dollar New Amsterdam Magistrates’ court at Vryheid Road, New Amsterdam.
They had to scamper for their lives. Many did not escape unhurt after parts of the ceiling came tumbling, with a thud bringing with them pounds of bat dung .
The rehabilitation cost more than $20M. The work lasted over two years. Residents and lawyers are saying that it is money wasted and an investigation should be launched immediately into the ‘slapdash’ work done on the facility.
Journalists who were visiting the court at the same time were lucky to escape the collapsing ceiling.
One lawyer joked that the government knew why it did not do a formal ceremonial opening of the facility because it would have fell on the President and his entourage.
The court was repaired under the Inter American Development Bank justice improvement programme.
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