Vice President and Mini-ster of State Khemraj Ramjattan recently visited the Camp Street prison and engaged inmates after recent “gang fights” with a promise to start the process of speedy trials and to address the issue of overcrowding.
According to a press release from the Govern-ment Information Agency (GINA), the Minister’s visit came in the wake of a recent outbreak of “gang fights” which resulted in the hospitalisation of one inmate.
Many of the inmates were on remand for several years awaiting their trials and to which Ramjattan said, “I will keep my promise to them to have the courts give some early trials