The Henry Forde and David Simmons Judicial and Legal Complex (HFDS). (FP) In December 2022, the Old Supreme Court Complex at Coleridge Street was re-opened .
Barbados’ economic progress relies on more than just the Government’s investment in capital projects, especially during these hard times. It also requires the private sector to meet that spend in order to ensure the kind of financial growth necessary to facilitate opportunities for every Barbadian, says Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley And at the reopening and renaming of the Old Supreme Court Complex at Coleridge Street, The City, on Friday, …
Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley has declared that Barbados’ judicial system must move in a direction where jail time and fines are reserved for those who commit criminal acts.She said such an approach was needed to replace the current practice of fining and confining for every regulatory breach.“There must be other ways for us to ensure that people can pay their penalties without necessarily depriving them and, by extension, their families of a source of living in order to be able to sustain them as they go forward.“There are too many projects needed to be done in a modern Barbados that the activities and hours from those who have defiled the country and those who have breached the social capital of the country in ways that are clearly patent, we can find for you to give back and to help us sustain and build the social capital of this nation,” Prime Minister Mottley said as she delivered the feature address at the opening and renaming ceremony of the Old Supreme Court Complex,
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