The newly commissioned La Plaine Police Station and Magistrate’s Court is designed to provide adequate facilities for the maintenance of law and order, Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Roosevelt Skerrit has said.
According to him the facility will also improve law enforcement services delivered to communities in the south east of the island.
“The new police station and Magistrate Court have been designed to provide adequate facilities for housing and carrying the functions of maintenance of law and order, thereby ensuring that the peace and stability of La Plaine and the surrounding communities are maintained,” he stated during the commissioning ceremony last week.
Skerrit pointed out that with an improved working environment, productivity and the level of service delivered to the community, “will also be improved.”
“Availability of the Magistrate’s Court in the district will allow justice to be dispensed in a timely manner, thereby increasing public confidence in the justice system and the rule of law,” he said.
The Prime Minister pointed out that the newly opened facility compliments other development projects in the area.
“This includes efforts at diversifying the economy, with focus on development of your eco-tourism sites and other community tourism initiatives,” he said. “Efforts of improving the housing stock and the upgrading of the water supply in a number of the communities.”
Meantime, Minister for Justice and National Security, Rayburn Blackmoore said the new Magistrate’s Court will reduce the backlog of matters in the court system on the island.
“We had an issue with the Magistrate Court, no court was in La Plaine for a number of years, resulting in long delays for resolutions of court matters and creating serious backlog on the ready over burden court system,” Blackmoore explained.
According to him, the delays have eroded the confidence of the people of La Plaine in the country’s justice system but “this for you the people of Laplaine, Morne Jaune, Riviere Cyrique and Grand Fond is now something of the past.”
MP for the area, Petter Saint Jean said the station marks a new day in the history of La Plaine.
“Little did we know that it would be some 30 or more years before this community would have a permanent home for our law enforcement officers,” he noted. “That 35 years ago their nomadic lives had just begun, little did we know and understand that, that night of waiting would be so long, that we would have to wait so much for a new day in the history of La Plaine and the south east.
The La Plaine Police Station will serve the villages of La Plaine, Grand Fond, Morne Journe, Riviere Cyrique, Rosalie and Beotica.
It was financed through a loan from the Dominica Social Security to the tune of $3,244,137.12.
The firm of A.K. Henderson Ltd. was awarded the construction contract for the project.
Cabal Priorities:
Selling our passports. A few making millions. No investments by those buying our passports. Foreign and local individuals, firms in Network all over the world selling passports
Selling our diplomatic immunity, giving our diplomatic passports to God knows whom, Crooks, criminals in possession of our sacred passports. Irrefutable evidence.
More taxes. Agriculture, productive sectors abandoned, neglected. Rural folks bawling. Their livelihoods, standards of living down, down, down. Impoverished.
Dependency. Red Clinic. Medicancy. For loyalty to supremo?
15 acres carved out of our Cabrits National Park, given to foreigner, Range Dev., plus our passports to sell.
Land where PWC working for decades taken from them. Chinese now own there. Dominica selling, sold.
Building New Police stations, not Marigot hospital, or fixing the farmers’ feeder roads.
Increase National Debt to $1 billion plus.
Jobs?
Growing economy?…
Three blind mice
Three stuttering MPs
Three clowns
Three tof a kind!
All they need right now is their long cane and their dark glasses on their face, and a cup in each of their hand!
Remember at the beginning of the movie Dr. No as in 007; when the three blind mice walked one behind the other!
Well, that’s the three blind mice sitting there: they look like Mane Mo and Jeff too, with their big glasses on their face, you see them on the car parts stores called PepBoys!
The people of La Plaine and neighboring villages should be elated and also proud of their police station. You should feel comfortable and relatively safe that the police station is finally in your vicinity and the police are nearby.
Hello and good afternoon my people. Well the Commanding Officer can’t say his residence is separate from the Precinct therefore he/she will be held accountable for anything that happened. Didn’t the Supervisor in charge in Portsmouth say he couldn’t hear anything because he live to far from his work. Mr St Jean please work on the field because LaPlaine have so many children who need activities to keep them occupied.
La Plaine, Grand Fond, Morne Journe, Riviere Cyrique, Rosalie and Beotica..never knew crime was so outrageous in these areas that 3 plus million e.c dollars had to be spent on a babylon farm….lol wake up dominicans..
over de weekend i listened to some DLP cronies lambasting UWP term in office saying that de economy was so broken and we were so bad in debt that we had to take loan from Social security to carry out Government business and pay salaries
This is not the first time skerrit taking loan from Social security
De PM himself admitted that he got money from a friendly government to deal with back pay for public workers and their new increase
THEY WON’T BUILD NO FEEDER ROADS ANYMORE. ALL DEM BUILD IS PRISON PRISON!!!!!!
The pic captures it all. Blackmoore homing in on that “no confidence in the justice system” and Petter furthest from space… but the PM nah like what you just say about so 4&5s….no wonder the sad and sorry looking expression on his face!!!!!!!!!
Blackmoore………… just reading between the lines “We had an issue with the Magistrate Court, no court was in La Plaine for a number of years ( why not disclose how many years >5), resulting in long delays for resolutions of court matters and creating serious backlog on the ready over burden court system,”…. but the bravest part goes like this… According to him, the delays have eroded the confidence of the people of La Plaine in the country’s justice system!!!!!!!!!!!! but “this for you the people of Laplaine, Morne Jaune, Riviere Cyrique and Grand Fond is now something of the past”….. Blackmoore!!!!!!!!!!!!
Two moo moos and their leader. I am surprise that Skerrit allowed them to talk. Yes let them build more police stations and no hospitals. The hospital in Marigot needs to be updated or build a new one.this is the closest one to the airport, God forbid there is no accident there. The airport belongs to all Dominicans not to Marigot or Wesley. All our people land and take off from there. In the end we are all Dominicans, not Labourites or UWPers. Yes Mr. P M build police stations in all the villages that voted for you and ignore much need things. please look out for all of Dominica and not special places. We all are Dominicans, I wonder if you are, because you bringing down our Nature Island.
Skerrit you look a bit worried,building the cells to keep the citizens that do not support you dictatorship form of government,Time will tell,Skerrit,keep up the cabal.
You excel in throwing words at every opportunity you have. What you stated has absolutely nothing to do with the issue. It appears to be a bad habit which some of you have.
There is a God above. One day, soon enough, He will stop your disrespectful ways and mapuis for good. Wait and see.
wait awhile that picture funny though, lol
Hon. St.Jean, did you forget you were attending an official function? Our Ministers must learn to dress appropiately when attending official functions. Party shirts are for party meetings.
Additional jail cells for the people of Marigot, Wesley and Salisbury. Remember I said it first.
Watch your words. You may be first to taste it.
When I was a little boy, and I went to matinee, the comic shows I hated the most are those that involved “the three Stooges.” In the photograph, I see what represents three Stooges, or the three blind mice in the first of the first series of the James Bond Movies: 007!
Petter, claimed to have been a school teacher; I am not going to comment on that career, Skerrit claimed to be a former school teacher turn college student, who majored in English, failed and cannot speak English grammar: Blackmoore, another dunce said he was a police officer, yet he does not know the meaning of the word litigation!
Hence, all three are at it again foolishly talking crap, about a building is going to maintain law and order!
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah!
How on earth can a lifeless wooden, or concrete structure maintain Law and Order. Somebody has to be mad; the judicial system (the people involved) from the police to judges and magistrates are the ones who implement the laws…
While we need police, and precincts, we also need hospitals; when will we see a new hospital built in the village of Marigot. Assuming that political victimization is the obstacle, and the prejudices of the government is preventing them from building a hospital in Marigot, build it between Marigot and Wesley, somewhere on the Melville Hall Estate, between the Airport and Marigot, or between Wesley and the Airport.
a the beginning of the movie 007, in James Bond, here they go again getting ready to do damage as the three blind mice did!
I could not agree more. Marigot or the Marigot area needs a hospital…heaven forbid a serious accident occurs at the Douglas-Charles airport….. transporting patients from Marigot to Roseau is not realistic if the intent is to save lives.
if you dont have anything good to say, try hard say nothing.
hey Mr. DUMB ini CAN what good is there to be said. The likes of you are simply singing for your supper. You tell me one good thing that has happened as it relates to the provision of sustainable jobs in order to ease the burden on the thousands of unemployed.
Are the newly built police stations in Calibishi and La Plaine going to provide jobs for the local people?
When you commence assisting Wesley, your village and Marigot. You claim to have money or to be well off. They are waiting for your help.
Put your money where your mouth is. Too much talk and no action.
Does this mean additional jobs for LaPlaine?????? not…. total waste.
They don’t build no schools anymore all they build is the prison prison.
dey don’t build no hospitals…..I am a prisoner…..
The Prisoner of Zenda? Ever heard of this movie or seen it?
Nationals must play a part in assisting to decrease crimes. One of it is, you should commence praying that crimes are eradicated. Then there will be more schools and fewer prisons, the latter, if none at all.