With between 35 per cent and 40 per cent of the Dodds Prison population made up of people on remand, Attorney General Adriel Brathwaite has warned that the slow pace of doing business in Barbados can’t be allowed to continue.
In an interview with the DAILY NATION yesterday, he stressed that while urgent steps had to be taken to speed up the operations of the justice system, the same approach had to be applied to just about every aspect of doing business here.
Responding to questions following an announcement by police that over the weekend they had charged a St Michael youth, who had been on bail on a 2010 murder charge, with a second murder that occurred earlier this month, Brathwaite said he was very concerned.
“If it is that judges are giving bail to persons on murder charges because of the time that is elapsing between the laying of charges and the matter being heard by the courts, I have to be very concerned,” he said. (RRM)
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