The new court will be housed in the lower flat of the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts, at the Brickdam entrance. It will feature a drug treatment team that includes Magistrates, State Counsels, a legal aid attorney and a probation officer.
She cited the Phoenix Recovery Centre and the Salvation Army as two Non-Governmental Organisations (NGO’s) that are providing their services to ensure the rehabilitation of these drug users.
The question of whether offenders can indeed be rehabilitated was answered by Organisation of American States (OAS) representative to Guyana, Jean Ricot Dormeus, who played a key role in collaboration with the Government in implementing the drug rehabilitation court. He noted that Director of Prisons, Gladwin Samuels, recently highlighted cases of rehabilitated prisoners.
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