Minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs, Delroy Chuck, says a meeting will be held with the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) to discuss the use of plea bargaining within the courts.

Chuck argued that, currently, far too many cases are being tried within the court system.

“At the Ministry of Justice level, we want to help to see how best we can get matters moving. I have pointed out many times, in America, 90 per cent of the cases in all the courts are completed by plea bargaining. In some states, it’s higher… as high as 98 per cent… less than five per cent of the cases are actually tried. That is something which I believe that the DPP… and the Clerks of Court will have to find a way where they can initiate with the defence how they can plead guilty and bargain over sentence, or even bargain on a lesser charge,” he stated.