Mandeville, Manchester — Recently elected president of the Lay Magistrates’ Association of Jamaica (LMAJ), Errol Greene, said that among the items on his agenda is to work with the custodes in the different parishes to ‘clean-up’ the list of Justices of the Peace.

The move, he said, is to make the information up-to-date.

“Some (justices of the peace) have migrated for years, some have passed away,” Greene told the Jamaica Observer.

Greene, who is immediate past president of the Kingston Chapter of the LMAJ, took on the leadership of the national body at the organisation’s annual general meeting at the Belair High School in Mandeville on Saturday October 22.

He told the Observer that he will also be working with his executive team members to increase the education and training of justices of the peace and ensure that they play a more active role in communities.

Greene is currently secretary/manager of the St Thomas Parish Council and is also known for his previous role as town clerk for the Kingston and St Andrew Corporation (KSAC).

He has been a justice of the peace since 2001.

— Alicia Sutherland