Ex-JLP councillor to know fate Friday after pleading guilty to gun charge

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Ex-JLP councillor to know fate Friday after pleading guilty to gun charge

Former local government representative in the St Catherine Municipal Corporation, Barrington Bailey, is to be sentenced on Friday for breaches of the Firearms Act. Bailey, the Jamaica Labour Party councillor in the Ensom City division from 2012 to...

Source: Jamaica Gleaner

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