We first met Greg Christie when he was legal counsel for Kaiser International and quickly realised that this was an outstanding professional of the highest integrity. During his seven years as Contractor General of Jamaica, Christie’s tough approach to corruption met with both plaudits and brickbats. Now with Jamaica moving down a few notches on the corruption scale, we should welcome the news that this fearless Jamaican will return to head the Integrity Commission, a merger of the Office of the Contractor General, the Commission for the Prevention of Corruption, and the Integrity Commission under the Integrity Commission Act 2017.
According to a Jamaica Observer Report, “The Integrity Commission was established in February 2018 with a mandate to promote and enhance standards of ethical conduct for parliamentarians, public officials, and other individuals. Under its mandate it is to consolidate the laws relating to the prevention of corruption and the awarding, monitoring and investigating of the government contracts and prescribed licences. It is also mandated to strengthen the measures for prevention, detection, investigation, and prosecution of acts of corruption.”
Jamaicans should be heartened at this appointment, as the cost of corruption is too much for our country to bear.
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