Justice Randall Worrell believes the courts’ current ‘fast track’ system must be sped up to allow those seeking to enter a guilty plea to get to the High Court more quickly.Moments before informing Michael Jackson, a boat captain of Questelles, St Vincent; Brendon Ollivierre, a chief engineer of La Pomp, Bequia; and Jake-Jess McPherson King, a deckhand of Mount Pleasant, Bequia that they will finish serving their sentences in less than two months, the judge insisted that the fast track system was not moving quickly enough as he considered the delay in the matter being brought to the Supreme Court.Earlier this year, the Vincentians had pleaded guilty that on April 27, 2021, they had 176.9 kilogrammes of cannabis, that they had a trafficable quantity of the drug; and to its importation.Justice Worrell said: “The issue that this court has is that this is not a murder case, this is not a manslaughter case. This is a case where the most it could have depended on is a certificate indicating the drugs were drugs and possibly one or two other witnesses.
