Correction
Two stories published in the Sunday Observer on November 27, 2022 under the headlines ‘Prescription fraud galore’ and ‘Pharmaceutical Society wants Precursor Chemicals Act updated’ incorrectly identified Mr Kevar Bennett as president of the Pharmaceutical Society of Jamaica (PSJ).
Mr Bennett is actually the immediate past secretary of the PSJ. The president is Dr Tyrone Smith.
Dr Smith has also made it clear that the PSJ did not give Mr Bennett any authority to speak on its behalf and wants the public to know that if it was going to make a statement on a topic as significant as prescription fraud it would have been well researched and supported by statistics and not be done in a way to create alarm, panic and hysteria in the public sphere.
We regret the error.