KENT PANTRY, Q.C., Director of Public Prosecutions will be going on vacation leave effective today for two months.
Paula Llewellyn, senior deputy Director of Public Prosecutions, will be acting as Director of Public Prosecutions.
Miss Llewellyn is the first woman to act as Director of Public Prosecutions. She first acted in the post in 2000.
Meanwhile, the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions continues to have a shortage of senior prosecutors. Most of the senior prosecutors have resigned over the last five years.
When the new court session starts in September, the office will lose four of its senior prosecutions. They are: Herbert McKenzie, acting deputy Director of Public Prosecutions, who will be taking up a post abroad, while Lorraine Smith and Georgiana Fraser, both acting deputy Directors of Public Prosecutions have been appointed Resident Magistrates. Suzette Rogers, Crown counsel, has been transferred to another
Government department.
