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Oct 10, 2013 News
The Guyana Power and Light Inc. is being blamed for the delay in the completion of the renovation of the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts. This is according to Attorney General, Anil Nandlall.
Speaking with Kaieteur News yesterday, Minister of Legal Affairs, Anil Nandlall said, “The delay is in getting electricity supplied to the building by GPL and the company has to acquire a particular high powered cable which is required to get the job done. All of the other infrastructural work has been done and it is just some minor cleaning
up that is being done at the moment.” Another reason for the delay is that orders were made for the provision of new furniture to replace those that were damaged when they were being removed to facilitate renovations.”
Junior Finance Minister, Juan Edghill, had set September month end for the completion of the works on the building. Speaking to Kaieteur News yesterday, Minister Edghill confirmed that the transformers which were supposed to be installed by September 15 are in place.
Edghill later contacted Bharrat Dindyal, Chief Executive Officer of GPL and established that the company had also sourced the high voltage cable and that installation and testing was expected to be completed by the end of this week.
However the Minister expressed, “We have gone into another month which is something I detest because we have to continue paying the rent for the building at Middle Street, which currently houses five Magistrates.
Once GPL has finished its testing, hopefully by the end of this week, it will be handed over to the Judiciary and it will then be their call to set the date for reopening,” Edghill added.
The modernized structure is expected to accommodate 11 Courts, each having offices for the Magistrates, along with washroom facilities.
The court will also have accommodations for the Office of the Clerk of the Georgetown Magisterial District and support staff, along with an area to accommodate prisoners.
It will be fully air-conditioned and sound proof and have two parking lots – on the northern side of the building, on Croal Street, as well as on the southern side, on Brickdam.
The total cost for the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court is $160M.
Nandlall explained that the program falls under the purview of the Modernization of the Justice Administration System project and is being funded by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
The project seeks to improve the physical infrastructure and institutional capacity of the Justice Sector.
The Legal Affairs Minister also indicated that under this section of the project, new courts have been constructed in Springlands, Whim, Canje, New Amsterdam, Sisters Village, Fort Wellington, Wales, Wismar and Lethem, among other areas.
Further, Nandlall said that under the project, renovation has been carried out at almost every court building in the country, including the Court of Appeal and the High Courts in Berbice and Demerara.
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