A spe­cial crim­i­nal court to pro­vide "swift jus­tice," is ex­pect­ed to be es­tab­lished to deal with with firearm, kid­nap­ping and nar­cot­ic of­fences. It would be set up by the ju­di­cia­ry to re­lieve the case bur­den on the mag­is­trates' courts, Fi­nance Min­is­ter Win­ston Dook­er­an an­nounced in yes­ter­day's bud­get pre­sen­ta­tion. Dook­er­an al­so an­nounced the ex­pect­ed con­struc­tion of the San­gre Grande Mag­is­trates' Court and the Ari­ma Ju­di­cial Com­plex. He said the courts had been long over­due, with on­ly a few mag­is­trates sit­ting to hear hun­dreds of cas­es on any giv­en day.

He al­so stat­ed that progress was be­ing made in ac­quir­ing sites for these projects. Al­so new to the ad­min­is­tra­tion of jus­tice would be the in­tro­duc­tion of a "Vic­tims of Crime Sup­port" pro­gramme, Dook­er­an said. "The vic­tims re­quire so much emo­tion­al and psy­cho­log­i­cal help and of­ten have nowhere to turn for on­go­ing sup­port," he said. The ini­tia­tive will be con­duct­ed in a joint ef­fort with the Min­istry of the Peo­ple and the Min­istry of Na­tion­al Se­cu­ri­ty.