By SANCHESKA BROWN
Tribune Staff Reporter
sbrown@tribunemedia.net
ATTORNEY General Allyson Maynard Gibson said that in the Senate today she will address concerns about the standard and upkeep of the Public Prosecutions Office.
Speaking with The Tribune, Mrs Maynard Gibson said “all will be revealed” when she makes her contribution in the Upper Chambers.
“I will be addressing that fully tomorrow. We have a crime package coming up and we are debating those crime bills, so we will deal with it at that time,” she said.
Her comments came after Opposition Leader Dr Hubert Minnis called attention to the “poor conditions” under which prosecutors now work.
He said when he visited the new prosecutions office on Bank Lane, he found important documents piled in boxes “stacked to the sky.”
“We have an issue with crime. There are lots of cases that have been delayed and cannot be brought before the courts in a timely manner. I heard complaints about the working conditions so I went to see myself,” Dr Minnis said.
“There is one room where more than 50 individuals are supposed to work. That is no way for people to be efficient. Many of them work outside or from in their cars because they cannot work inside that place. The bathroom is nasty. How does a government that says they believe in Bahamians allow people to work in those conditions? The morale is low.”
Dr Minnis said the government needs to move toward a digitised system instead of “writing everything down and sticking them in boxes that could be lost or destroyed.”
Last month, the Inter American Development Bank (IDB) said they were concerned about the administration of justice in the Bahamas.
In a recent report, the IDB suggested that the government moves towards a “modern digital” information system.
“To improve court reporting and transcript generation, which the IDB notes still consists of a transcriber, while the modern digital court reporting includes broadcast quality microphones and digital recorders, the IDB has committed $110,00 while another $77,000 will be to support the implementation of an integration justice information system with an efficient business model that will seek to strengthen cooperation, coordination and communication among the Attorney General’s Office, the police and the judiciary and $66,000 will go towards the reduction of the Supreme Court’s backlog,” the report said.
Comments
ThisIsOurs 10 years, 4 months ago
I would suggest that the IDB oversees all monies given to the country, all contracts awarded and confirms that the results meet expectation of the objectives. Some may say, but we have the expertise to do this ourselves, and we most certainly do! The problem is the dummies are always handed the contracts because of their political ties. The reason the PM has to constantly announce the use of consultants for government projects is that the positions that should be staffed with knowledge workers are constantly doled out to campaign staff and friends who get in the way, either by providing no service, poor service or disrupting the service of legitimate workers. Example, Ms Reckley locking up the computers, how silly was that?
The best thing the IDB could do for this country would be to conduct an audit of key/top positions in every govt organization. The audit would not focus solely on paper qualifications but would judge the ability of the worker to carry out the job function.
Reality_Check 10 years, 4 months ago
Maynard-Gibson should be at the top of the list of those individuals to be banished from ever again holding any type of executive or senior administrative position or role within any government office, department or agency. She has over her political career demonstrated time and time again that she has absolutely no managerial skill sets whatsoever. The AG's Office has never made any meaningful head way with her at the helm and never will. While having mastered routine parliamentary procedures and the wagging of her tongue, her more time consuming interests are not devoted to the public good but rather the lining of her family's pocket book through the misuse of political influence for the benefit of personal and family ventures of one kind or another. Land grabbing is one of the things she certainly learned well from Sir Clem.
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