Editorial

DPP’s Opinion Was Evidentially Driven And Based On The Law

February 3, 2022 | By Hopeton O’Connor-Dennie |

COVID19 Breach Drama Unfolds

The Director of Prosecutions Ms. Paula Llewellyn along with Mrs. Martin Swaby head of Cyber Crimes Unit in the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions were speaking with Ricardo Brooks and Tauna Thomas regarding the police investigation into alleged breaches by former agriculture Minister Floyd Green and party who were having meals and enjoying themselves at the Ark Hotel in August 2021 which was deemed to be a breach of the Disaster Restrictions Management Act (DRMA).

They prepared a fourteen page report which was made public.

The Opinion

The DPP’S office has issued an opinion that they are not recommending that criminal proceedings be entered into and therefore no criminal charges be proferred against the parties for breaches of the DMRA. The police
has the final say as it relates to prosecution.

Commentary

Views on the DPP’S report have been mixed. Many feel that justice was not served. The former agriculture Minister should be prosecuted. The DPP and her deputy saw it differently.

Hopeton O’Connor-Dennie is poet, elegist, author, and senior international journalist who writes for Vision Newspaper

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