Region 10, Upper Demerara, Upper Berbice, Region Chairman Deron Adams is committed to working towards ensuring that the opportunities and amenities available to residents in the more urban areas are extended to other communities like Kwakwani.
This was the Chairman’s view as he gave remarks during the opening of a new $37.8 million Magistrate’s Court recently to serve that community. The Regional Chairman reminded those gathered that “The Kwakwani Magistrates Court is one of three that were budgeted for in 2019, when the decision was taken to ensure that justice is dispensed to the furthest reaches in Guyana.”
He stated, “Access to justice features prominently in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, whose Target 16.3 of Goal 16 is about promoting the rule of law at the national and international levels and ensuring equal access to justice for all. This is particularly important when a person’s fundamental rights to life and liberty are put at risk.”
“We welcome the provision of access to legal action being brought closer to the people who need the service. For those who are accustomed to having easy access to these services in other areas of Guyana, the hardship of being without it may not be readily apparent. However, I am certain that the people of Kwakwani and the Upper Berbice river communities look at this as a welcome development”, Chairman Adams said.
Adams noted that the efforts and representation of the Regional Democratic Council on this and other issues will continue. He said he looks forward to the day when banking services, licensing and other government services are provided on-site here in the Berbice River. “This objective is never far from our focus.”
Also present at the Court’s commissioning were Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs, Mohair Anil Nandlall, S.C., Chancellor of the Judiciary (ag) Justice Yonette Cummings-Edwards, Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan, Chief Justice (ag) Roxane George, Director of Public Prosecutions Shalimar Ali-Hack, among other senior officials.
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