IDPs, beekeeping and offender GPS bracelets in focus at Governmental meeting
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Assisting Georgia’s Internally Displaced People (IDPs) into quality accommodation, supporting agricultural sector development and implementing modern punishment methods in the justice sector are some of the priority areas of the Government of Georgia, says Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili.
Speaking at a Governmental meeting today Garibashvili said assisting IDPs was of utmost importance and action was being taken to improve their quality of life by ensuring they had safe and acceptable living conditions.
Today 783 IDPs will receive flats,” said Garibashvili at the meeting, adding at the previous Government meeting another 1,200 IDPs were offered new apartments.
The PM also spoke about an innovative system due to come into effect this month in the justice sector.
Specifically, from this month the court can impose a sentence of house arrest and offenders imposed with this sentence will be required to wear special GPS monitoring bracelets that note their whereabouts and deter future crime.
Minister of Correction and Legal Assistance Kakha Kakhishvili continued on this topic and emphasised that introducing house arrest as a sentence was an innovative approach in the region.
Initially 200 special GPS monitoring bracelets worth $520,000 USD (about 1.24 million GEL ) would be purchased by the Government.
We have already contacted a company that produces and operates the bracelets in 30 different countries. We intend to use the company’s full service,” Kakhishvili said.
Today’s meeting agenda allocated a great deal of time to allow authorities to discuss Georgian beekeeping traditions that are on the verge of extinction. It was noted the Ministry of Agriculture will support cooperatives to preserve and sustain this activity, which has been abandoned for many years.
Through the Government initiated Beekeeping-Agricultural Cooperatives Support Program, 164 cooperatives will be encouraged around Georgia, 80 among them in mountainous regions, to bring this activity back to life.
To do this the Agricultural Cooperatives Development Agency will buy beehives and specialist technical equipment for interested cooperatives that meet certain criteria, to assist them in their beekeeping duties.
The United Nations (UN) General Assembly has adopted its eighth resolution recognising the right of safe, dignified and unhindered return of all internally displaced persons (IDPs) and refugees to their homes in Abkhazia and Tskhinvali (South Ossetia) region.
More than 10,000 Georgian people displaced by conflict and violence and forced to live in collective centres are benefiting from improved living conditions.
Georgia’s internally displaced persons (IDPs) will be granted one-time financial assistance from the Government this winter to help them pay their gas and power bills.
Hundreds of Georgian people displaced by conflict and violence who live in collective centres have been gifted apartments in their name for symbolic price of one GEL.
More than 100 Internally Displaced families will meet New Year in new apartments in Georgia.
The Georgian Government has announced a tender for a development company to provide apartments for Georgia’s internally displaced persons (IDPs).
Minister of Corrections Kakha Kakhishvili today revealed costly appointments with inmates will be scrapped and prisoners’ families and friends will be able to enjoy free-of-charge meetings with their loved one behind bars.
Today Justice Minister of Georgia Thea Tsulukiani said the youth offenders law had become a topic of conversation in eastern European countries but now western, developed countries "are also interested in our innovative approaches in this field”.
From next year the Public Defender’s Office will be able to take photos of inmates and their living conditions to show the environment the inmates’ lived in.
A new website was launched where prisoners can advertise and sell their goods.