Presidential pardon youths to be freed by tomorrow

All the pardoned youth prisoners are to be released from jail by tomorrow and according to President David Granger they are going to be sent to a rehabilitation programme.

Speaking to Stabroek News yesterday shortly after the conclusion of the first sitting of the 11th Parliament, Granger said that it was following the appointment of Attorney General Basil Williams as the Minister of Legal Affairs that he signed the order to have the presidential pardons executed.

Granger during a special media interview on May 25 had said that sixty young prisoners who had been