Panel discussion on crime initiatives this Saturday
published: Wednesday | March 12, 2003
"NEW INITIATIVES against crime", is the topic of a panel discussion to be put on at Norman Manley Law School, UWI, Mona, on Saturday, March 15, by the Jamaican Bar Association, in association with the General Legal Council, and the law school.
Attorneys-at-law, law students and members of the public are being invited to the discussion which will begin at 10 a.m. Registration starts at 9.30 a.m.
The panelists will be Dr. Peter Phillips, Minister of National Security; Police Commissioner Francis Forbes; Dr. Carolyn Gomes, executive director of Jamaicans for Justice; Dr. Lloyd Barnett, constitutional lawyer and chairman of the Independent Jamaica Council for Human Rights, and Miss Donna Parchment, attorney-at-law and executive director of the Disputes Resolution Foundation.
Mrs. Pamela Benka-Coker, Q.C., will be the moderator.
Registration fees, which include refreshments, are $350 for attorneys-at-law and $100 for law students and members of the public.