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Alcohol And Drug Rehab To Get Bars And Food Trucks Next Door

Source: The Daily Herald 22 Apr 2022 02:30 PM

Turning Point Foundation for drug rehabilitation, based on Pond Islands Soualiga Boulevard since 1997, fears it will have to close its doors if the governments plans for bars and food trucks next door go ahead.

PHILIPSBURG--Nine months after Minister of Justice Anna Richardson announced that Turning Point Foundation was to receive the Pointe Blanche prisons unused container cells to house forensic patients on land adjacent to the rehab centre on Pond Island, the patients counsellors were shocked to learn this plot has now instead been allotted to the Ministry of Tourism for a food court, with sale of alcohol and tobacco.

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