Chief Engineer, “Other Court Building Also Needs Urgent Attention”

Last Thursday you heard Chief Engineer in the Ministry of Infrastructure Development and Housing, Evondale Moody speak about the intensive repair and restorative work that the Public Building which houses the High Court and the Magistrate’s Court have undergone. The building had been deteriorating rapidly, and suffered major damage to Hurricane Lisa. While the ministry spent almost three million dollars for that project, Chief Engineer, Evondale Moody told News Five that the building right across the street that faces the historic Battlefield Park is also in dire need of attention.

Evondale Moody

Evondale Moody, Chief Engineer, MIDH

“The one beside it where I think that’s the Supreme Court, from what I’ve discussed with the Chief Justice and the Registrar General, that needs some significant work, and if it is not addressed as soon as possible, then it will cost more down the road. I don’t think that we should wait until we have a hurricane or a natural disaster for us to react. We are aware that building needs addressing, but those initiatives have to come from that ministry because we’re just the implementing agency. Basically, we’re assisting another ministry to fulfill those works, but that has to come from the Attorney General’s Ministry and also from Ministry of Finance to initiate those works.”