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President re-commissions $22M Mibicuri Magistrate’s Court
The $22M Mibicuri Magistrate’s Court was re- commissioned by President Donald Ramotar on Monday in Black Bush Polder. The new building replaced a derelict structure which affected the operation of the judiciary in the farming community on the Corentyne. Previously, Whim Magistrate’s Court had been servicing the cases for the Black Bush area.
The new Mibicuri Magistrate’s Court
President Ramotar told those gathered that the rule of law is fundamental to the development of any society ”and life has showed us that the countries that have developed the most are countries where you have respect for law where the systems are functioning and moving ahead”.
In countries where those systems have broken down there is pervasive poverty, thus proving a direct correlation between social and economic development and the judicial system. There is a direct link in the security sector, with the police force, judiciary, prisons, magistracy, — “all of these things are interconnected, and when one is not functioning well, it affects the work of the other section and it is in all of our interests to ensure that all the areas of the security sector…work to its maximum so that we can deliver justice to our people and have social and economic development”.
Ramotar noted that there are many people who are incarcerated for long periods waiting for their cases to be heard. He mentioned the popular saying, “justice delayed is justice denied, and I believe that is true”. The government recognizes the importance of the judicial system, he stated. “We have committed to the provisions of facilities for this system so that the public, magistrates, lawyers, police etc can function and be even more productive”.
The Guyanese leader noted, too, that the Magistrate’s Court in New Amsterdam also has been rehabilitated, along with the Sister’s, Reliance, Whim and Springlands Courts.
President Ramotar and Chancellor Carl Singh unveil the plaque to recommission the structure
“It is not only the infrastructure that we consider important. Large sums of monies are provided annually on stationery, law books—gone are the days when judges did not have pens to write with or paper to write on, and cases sometimes were postponed because of the lack of these facilities”.
He said that the government strongly believes in the separation of powers—the “checks and balances that a democratic society must have and that is why we can never be accused of tampering with the judicial system and we have never been brazen to fly our party’s flag in any court building which was done prior to 1992 at the Court of Appeal”.
He called on the residents of Black Bush Polder to ensure the court is maintained properly.
Minister of Legal Affairs, Anil Nandlall said that the government “is spending so much money in the judiciary because we want a system to be there where the citizenry can go to settle their disputes between and amongst themselves and the state and themselves”.
Nandlall said that it is the custom for residents of such communities in which new structures are built and commissioned to not care those facilities and the government always has to return to do remedial works.
“We have to care what we have, because no one else will care it for you—the President, or Chancellor or Attorney General will not come here into Black Bush to protect it”.
President Ramotar, along with Chancellor of the Judiciary, Justice Carl Singh, then unveiled the plaque in the new building.
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