Even if SOE ends today, attorney anxiously awaiting detention judgement

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Even if SOE ends today, attorney anxiously awaiting detention judgement

MONTEGO BAY, St James - President of the Cornwall Bar Association Lambert Johnson has reacted with relief over the possible ending of the states of public emergency (SOE) across the island today.

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