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Do­mini­can at­tor­ney, Clement Joseph, has been ap­point­ed the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tion (DPP) fol­low­ing the re­tire­ment of Ja­maican, An­tho­ny Arm­strong a few years ago, amid crim­i­nal charges for pro­fes­sion­al mis­con­duct brought by the Gen­er­al Le­gal Coun­cil in Ja­maica.

Arm­strong, who had held the po­si­tion of DPP since the ear­ly 2000s, re­tired in De­cem­ber 2022 af­ter the Coun­cil ruled that he had act­ed “con­trary to the laws of Ja­maica when he signed as a wit­ness to a doc­u­ment for some­one who was not phys­i­cal­ly present” in a mat­ter re­lat­ing to the sale of three prop­er­ties.

Arm­strong has since ap­pealed the rul­ing. In 2022, he was charged by the po­lice and re­leased on half a mil­lion dol­lars (One Ja­maica dol­lar=US$0.008 cents) bail with sure­ty.