Many of us at one point or the other have needed JP services, but very few know that it is illegal for these Justices of the Peace to even request a payment for their service. President of the Association of JPs Danny Madrid told us how they are trying to put a stop to it:
Adrian Danny Madrid, President - Association of JPs
"The problem is that it's not only the JP that is the problem because as you know we have over 3,000 JPs in this country and our records, the association records shows that it's only like a thousand JPs that are registered and actually doing the work now those JP's who have been appointed and out there doing nothing, those are the ones that put a bad name on us."
"If you go to Belmopan, I go to Belmopan and in front of Immigration department, they're right there standing and what's being done to them? Nothing. The only way you can take away a JP title is by bankruptcy right now but we are trying to fight and trying to find ways how you can lose it because there are so much JPs out there that., we were just talking about the act, so many JPs don't even read the act, they don't read the bylaws, they don't know their duties. They just get appointed that it JP and big deal and they only use it when they need to use it so are trying our best to try to change that."
