Parliament to review Office of Public Defender
Jan 18, 2013
KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC -Following a wave of criticism surrounding the delayed submission of the interim report on the probe into the May 2010 Tivoli Gardens incursion that led to the death of over seventy people, the Parliament of Jamaica will be conducting a full review of the Office of the Public Defender.
During an radio interview on Wednesday, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Michael Peart disclosed that the review will help to determine if intervention is necessary as it concerns the operations of the Office of the Public Defender.
On Tuesday, Earl Witter, the country’s Public Defender on Tuesday apologized to Peart for the non-submission of the report as promised, stating that the probe had not yet been completed.
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