Lt. Col Prescod
IN UNDER a week, security personnel at the St. Catherine District Prison have discovered five sticks of dynamite during separate searches at the penal institution.
Two sticks were found in an abandoned cell located on Block "B", on Saturday morning, and another three sticks were found yesterday morning in a swamp of the sewage plant.
Reports are that, acting on intelligence, a correctional officer, with the assistance of group of inmates, went to clean the sewage plant where they found three sticks of dynamites taped together. They were taken to the Superintendent in charge of the prison, Gilbert Ramsay, who called in the police.
The explosives were sent to the Government Forensic Laboratory for testing. Yester-day, the sub-officer in charge of crime at the Spanish Town Police Station, Detective Sergeant Michael Phipps, said the results of the two sticks found on Saturday have not yet been returned from the forensic laboratory.
An official from the Correctional Services Department said Commissioner Lt. Col. John Prescod has instructed his men to continue searching the institution for more contraband.
Dynamites are highly explosive mixture containing nitro-glycerine, which can blow apart any concrete structure or building. Prison authorities are now probing the circumstances under which the explosives got into the prison.
