The Barbados Drug Treatment Court (DTC) will begin sessions for its second cohort of clients on Wednesday, June, 15, at the Supreme Court Complex, White Park Road, St. Michael, beginning at 2:30 p.m. A total of 15 clients are enrolled this time around and they attended an orientation session on June 8, with Chief Justice,

Twelve persons, 11 males and one female, are now being monitored by Barbados’ Drug Treatment Court, after it held its first session on January 14, at the Supreme Court of Barbados. The Barbados Drug Treatment Court is a Magistrates’ Court, and persons charged with non-violent related offences, whose drug addiction or dependency is a factor in

Drug treatment courts have been touted by a former prosecutor as the most effective process to changing behaviour and stopping recidivism.  Dave Wallace, who was a prosecutor in Washington DC, said it was a fantastic idea to introduce such courts here because of their all-encompassing approach to the drug user as they held them accountable,