New Provincial Popular Tribunal opens in Guantánamo

Guantánamo's Mariana Grajales Plaza now boasts a new, majestic building: the Provincial Popular Tribunal (TPP). This three-level, 3,744 m2 structure, harmoniously integrated with the Maceo monument, surpasses its predecessor not just in architecture but in utility.

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Justice for justice

Rolando Aroche Pérez, president of the TPP, highlighted the new facility's improvements. It offers four courtrooms (two criminal, two civil), administrative spaces, a meeting room, a videoconferencing suite, and a teaching classroom. These amenities exceed the previous site in number, size, comfort, equipment, and spatial arrangement.

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In number, amplitude, comfort, equipment and spatial distribution, they surpass the previous headquarters

The initiative stems from a Cuban Parliament commission's review of court facilities nationwide. Aiming to reverse deterioration and improve working conditions, a plan for judicial building improvements, including new headquarters, was conceived. The project received backing from General of the Army Raúl Castro Ruz's directive, "Justice for justice," sparking construction activity across the judicial sector. This has led to new Supreme People's Court and provincial tribunal buildings in Mayabeque, Artemisa, Matanzas, and Granma, with Holguín's under construction. Municipalities have also benefited, though the U.S. blockade has imposed severe restrictions, slowing execution.

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In all judicial proceedings, there are moments when those involved need privacy

Aroche emphasized the new TPP's enhanced capacity to ensure privacy during judicial proceedings, crucial for separating witnesses. It also provides necessary spaces for minors to testify without re-traumatization and for prosecutors and lawyers to confer privately with clients. The improved conditions combat the overcrowding of the former adapted building, allowing public servants and educators to fulfill their roles with greater quality.

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Conditions like those I have mentioned are better guaranteed in this new headquarters. Also, here people work without the overcrowding of the previous building, which was an adapted property.