At least five prisoners will testify today when the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the disturbances at the Georgetown Prison which resulted in 17 deaths officially begins.
Chairman of the Commission former Justice James Patterson has assured that all the hearings are public. However given the volume of witnesses and members of the public who may want to attend, the conference room at the Department of the Public Service located at Waterloo Street, South Cummingsburg may not have adequate seating accommodation.
Patterson along with human rights activist Merle Mendonca and former prisons director Dale Erskine took their oath
