THE LONG-AWAITED report on the activities and handling of cases in the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) will be tabled in Parliament today.

Senator A.J. Nicholson, the minister of justice, told The Gleaner yesterday that the report will be tabled in the House of Representatives this afternoon and in the Senate on Friday.

The report was requested by Prime Minister P.J. Patterson in a letter to DPP Kent Pantry in April last year.

QUARTERLY, YEARLY REPORTS

The prime minister, reacting after an admitted 'foul-up' by the DPP's Office in the handling of the much-publicised Janice Allen killing case, called on the DPP to provide either quarterly or yearly reports on the activities of his office.

However, the tabling of the report saw a number of setbacks and the final draft was only last month delivered to the justice minister under whose portfolio the DPP's office falls.

In December, minister Nicholson said the DPP's first report to Parliament would be ready in early January.

Initially, Senator Nicholson had expected the report to be tabled in December but, he said, the draft submitted was not 'up to the standard necessary for Parliament'.