LAWYERS for embattled former junior energy minister, Kern Spencer, are expected to vigourously contest the prosecution's decision to drop the charges against co-accused Rodney 'Andrew' Chin Jnr, in order to use him as a crown witness in the Cuban light bulb trial.

According to a source close to the case, serious fireworks and "hell" can be expected on Monday when the prosecution is expected to announce its decision in the Half-Way-Tree Resident Magistrate's Court.

The Observer source groused that it was not right for the charges against Chin to be dropped after he admitted to wrongdoing.

A third defendant, Coleen Wright, Kern's former executive assistant and supervisor at the Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica, is also to stand trial on Monday.

All three defendants were arrested and charged in February as a result of a criminal probe into the handling of a gift of four million Cuban light bulbs, which reportedly cost taxpayers well over $100 million to be distributed.

Contracts to Chin's company, the managing director of Universal Management Company and Caribbean Communications and Media Network Ltd, are at the centre of the controversy.

Chin was at the centre of another controversy in November last year when it became public that his company, Chin's Construction Limited, had landed a Government contract to repair drains and gullies, while he was still facing criminal charges.