The Point Fortin Mag­is­trates' Courts will re­sume nor­mal op­er­a­tions to­day, ac­cord­ing to a state­ment from the ju­di­cia­ry yes­ter­day.The re­open­ing of the cour­t­house fol­lows work over the East­er week­end by the Ju­di­cia­ry's build­ing, plant and equip­ment unit and main­te­nance ser­vice providers, MTS, to rid the premis­es of a pun­gent scent which forced the sus­pen­sion of busi­ness at the courts last Thurs­day. The prob­lem, ac­cord­ing to the ju­di­cia­ry, was caused by stag­nant wa­ter that had gath­ered in the base­ment from an un­der­ground run-off from the near­by Point Fortin Po­lice Sta­tion.The pun­gent scent ad­verse­ly af­fect­ed the air qual­i­ty and cre­at­ed dis­com­fort for ju­di­cia­ry staff and oth­er stake­hold­ers us­ing the build­ing.Re­me­di­al ac­tion, which be­gan on Fri­day, in­clud­ed clear­ing the wa­ter and fu­mi­gat­ing the build­ing.

"The ju­di­cia­ry will con­tin­ue with fur­ther work dur­ing this week to min­imise as far as pos­si­ble any re­cur­rence of the prob­lems that oc­curred last Thurs­day," ac­cord­ing to the state­ment.This will in­clude the in­stal­la­tion of an ex­trac­tion sys­tem in the base­ment, and re­pairs to the sep­tic tank on the premis­es in col­lab­o­ra­tion with WASA and the Point Fortin Bor­ough Cor­po­ra­tion."The ju­di­cia­ry wish­es to ex­press its thanks to its staff, stake­hold­ers, main­te­nance crews and the gen­er­al pub­lic for their un­der­stand­ing and co-op­er­a­tion and to apol­o­gise for any in­con­ve­nience as a re­sult of the dis­rup­tion," the state­ment said.