Minister of Public Security Khemraj Ramjattan has said that the government acted on the recommendations it could afford from the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into last year’s deadly riot at the Camp Street Prison, while stressing that most of the major ones, including the construction of a new prison, require large sums of money.
The 70 recommendations made by the three-man commission, headed by retired judge James Patterson, have gained renewed attention in the light of Sunday’s violent breakout, which left a prison warden dead and the Camp Street jail destroyed.
Ramjattan, while responding to questions during a late night press conference held hours after on Sunday, did not touch on a quarter of the recommendations made, leaving behind burning questions about actions taken by government to improve the existing conditions in the country’s jails. “Most of the recommendations—
