UPDATE: Magistrate’s Court to open for criminal matters @ Old CTL Building on April 9
The court will be officially opened to the public on Tuesday, April 9, 2024, for the hearing of criminal matters.
This is according to a notice from Government Information Service (GIS) on March 26, 2024.
The Magistrate's Court, Criminal Division, was previously located at John's Hole.
See previous article published March 17, 2024
Old Clarence Thomas Building to be declared a Magistrate’s Court- Cabinet
The old Clarence Thomas Building in Pasea Estate, which once housed Elmore Stoutt High School (ESHS) students following the hurricanes of 2017, is to be used as a Magistrate’s Court.
This was disclosed in a Post-Cabinet Meeting Statement published March 15, 2024.
According to the statement, Cabinet “Decided that the old Clarence Thomas Building, Pasea Estate, be declared a Magistrate’s Court; and that the Deputy Governor's Office instruct the Attorney General's Chambers to prepare the relevant Order.”
The Decision was made at the Cabinet Meeting of March 6, 2024, which was chaired by His Excellency, the Governor Daniel Pruce.
All Members were present at the meeting held at the Premier's Conference Room in Cutlass Tower.
Old CTL building was returned to ‘original configuration’
It was in October 2022, that a US$97,359.00 contract was signed with Construction and Engineering Systems (BVI) Limited to return the Old CTL Building to its original configuration.
The contract was awarded by the Virgin Islands Recovery and Development Agency (RDA) in conjunction with the Government of the Virgin Islands.
The building was previously used as a hardware store before it was occupied by ESHS students following the hurricanes in 2017.
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37 Responses to “UPDATE: Magistrate’s Court to open for criminal matters @ Old CTL Building on April 9”
2. Government needs to stop cutting corners and renting , giving the SAME people MILLIONS every year, and build PROPER FACILITIES that support the business for which they are constructed.
A. Prison.
B. Half-way house
C. Drug rehab center
D. Home for the mentally challenged.
Send persons away to understudy at some of these facilities and let them come back and put working structures in place.
It has been decades. This is part of any country's strategic plan.
The invisible costs government racks up annually is absurd. Put those figures in your budget addresses and let the people hear the real figures.
The rich is getting richer and the poor you done know.
Wicked set a people in this place Mehson.
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CTL made millions from us and we spent millions to have had it rearranged for our use. Now we paid millions to put it as it was initially, to now be going to spend millions more to have redesigned to suit Magistrate Court ,and Deputy Governor's Office.
When will this / these things stop.
It pains me to have to admit that 'tis LUNATICS here running this country..I now have two serious reasons to agree with, and to Love Cindy for the way she see our leaders(some/most)
Where is their ability to think?
I guess that they themselves realize that ENGLAND SHOULD TAKE OVER BUT THEY ARE TOO DAMN SHAME TO ADMIT.
They need to be labeled or branded on their foreheads, "MOOOO MOOOO, LIKE MY CATTLES or HEEE HAH HEE HAAH, LIKE THE CHOCOLATE, wat u may call it.. who agree say yahoo.
The court system is to have our peoples locked up and given bad records, but you all fully well know in the Library there is KNOWLEDGE, AND WISDOM that's how they plan for us.
you Want us to learn from om those two zeros who only can see on one side , one said that the COI is causing RETARDATION v/ and the other took a diff
We need one more than a Magistrate's Court.
Focus on building the Magistrate's Court where it was said to be built and the EHRLC school too.