By Barbara Gayle, Staff Reporter 
Pantry
THE DISPUTE between senior prosecutors and Kent Pantry, Q.C., Director of Public Prosecutions, over his decision last week to revert a junior prosecutor to her substantive post as Clerk of the Courts, is far from over.
The prosecutors are expected to meet today with the DPP in an effort to have him withdraw the demotion letter.
A reliable source disclosed that at the meeting today, other issues will also be discussed. These include the vacant positions in the department, to which no appointments have been made.
"Another issue which we have to discuss is a careless-driving case, which was before the Mandeville Resident Magistrate's Court in January this year, in which the defendant was allowed to go free," the source said. "Some policemen in Manchester have been upset about the outcome of that case and have been blaming the DPP's office for its outcome."
"We just want to resolve these issues so that we can get on with the nation's business," a prosecutor said.
Some senior prosecutors in the office of the DPP were incensed by the abrupt manner in which Mr. Pantry reverted a junior prosecutor. Reports to The Gleaner were that about 5 p.m. last week Monday, the DPP sent a letter to Jenes Neathly, acting Crown Counsel, ordering her to return to her substantive post as Clerk of the Courts in St. James effective today.
Several senior prosecutors met with the DPP to voice their displeasure over the treatment of their colleague. Mr. Pantry, when contacted, had said he did not know anything about Ms. Neathly being reverted. However, he said The Gleaner could investigate the matter and write the story.
The prosecutors have been maintaining that the DPP has no authority to revert her. A prosecutor explained that for someone to be reverted or promoted, "the head of the department would have to make a recommendation and the Public Service Commission would then act on the recommendation of the head of department."
