Wilmot Max Ramsay Square, Cambridge, St. James, Jamaica:
It is official. The Cambridge police station and courthouse building is open. The Daily Gleaner POSTED the news thus: "Cambridge courthouse reopens." A Cantabrigian, beaming with excitement, reacted: "I am glad the station and courts have reopened. With the rise in crime especially here in St. James I am glad that the government saw it fit, and especially with the economic downturn, to at this time open the facility."
The facility which carries a police station, jail area, petty session court and resident magistrate court was officially declared open on Tuesday, November 18, 2008 by the Minister of National Security, Colonel Trevor MacMillian and Senator Dorothy Lightbourne, the Minister of Justice.
The building was renovated at a cost of $JA 65m.
Contacted on the matter, former Jamaica's youngest Councillor Wilmot Max Ramsay who was elected to the St. James Parish Council in March of 1981 and who has since received honours and graduated from the University of Massachusetts Boston said that he was indeed pleased to hear the "good news" and further stated that "the Bruce Golding administration did right in reopening the building at this time for the greater good of the public."
Max Ramsay added that he has fond memories as the over 200-year-old renovated building was dear to him "as my birthday celebrations were held in the upstairs courtroom by my constituents during my tenure as first citizen (of Cambridge) in the 1980s.
"I remember clearly that the facility overlooks the Wilmot Max Ramsay Square, the Square of my hono(u)r," concluded an obviously proud Max Ramsay.
(Copyright @ HERITAGE RESERVES, Friday, November 21, 2008, Page One)
