Roseau Court Receives State of the Art Equipment

Chief justice of the Eastern Caribbean supreme court Dame Janice Pereira has called on those using the new court system to make good use of the system. “This is a historic day for the court in Dominica in the handing over ceremony of the state of the art equipment,” she said.

She explained that the funding which is from the government of Canada cost just over US$50 thousand dollars.

“No one will forget the ravages of Hurricane Maria it was a time of despair because we the court in Dominica where activities had to take place but all that had to be canceled,” she said.

According to the CJ, the courts in Dominica was “closed doors” which was difficult for months for lawyers and litigants. “Your rights etc to justice was gone for months but I am pleased to see your remarkable spirit of resilience for as fierce as hurricane Maria was you moved into a sense of normalcy as the nature isle,” she stated.

She continued, ” we left no stones unturned to have the courts reopened with modern, state of the art equipment with ICT from the Jurist project.”
She thanked the government of Dominica for its help and also the registrar and his staff for the work done after hurricane Maria.

“There is a lesson to be learnt from disaster, we can’t control nature but we can control how we recover from it and have an implemented recovery plan,” the CJ stated.

Registrar Ossie Walsh who chaired the proceedings was full of praise for his staff for the work done after hurricane Maria and also the CJ for her guidance and leadership.

“She has created history as the first female CJ in the OECS since 2012 and is piloting lots of reforms in the courts,” Walsh said. Since the new equipments the court was able to sit in St. Lucia and deal with case management matters in Dominica.

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