“Inadequate accommodation” and “insufficient financial resources” were major challenges for the Deputy Governor’s Office in 2010, but that didn’t stop it from amending legislation, establishing new archives and records procedures, and helping handle complaints against the government, according to the office’s 2010 annual report, which was released last month in the House of Assembly.
Budget cuts were blamed on the “current global economic downturn,” but the pressure to “do more with less” in the civil service forced the DGO to shelve some capital projects: a planned new archives building, police headquarters and national emergency operations centre, and an improved Magistrates’ Court, the report said.
The capital projects were said to “remain high priority projects for the territory’s benefit,” and were described as “key target areas” for 2011.
According to the DGO’s work plan, initial drawings for the new Magistrates’ Court were completed, and the Public Works Department was working on a final version at the time of the 2010 report’s completion.
Government has since decided to make alternative arrangements for the Magistrates’ Court, said DGO Permanent Secretary David Archer this week.
See the Aug. 30, 2012 edition for full coverage.
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