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EDITORIAL - Corruption Prosecutor Would Be Welcomed
Published: Wednesday | March 19, 2014 2 Comments
Greg Christie, the former contractor general whose cacophonous investigations and strident reports discomfited many public officials, often complained that the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) seemed not too eager to bring before the courts those who failed to comply with provisions of the act he policed. He often called for a more robust fight against corruption, with strong institutional support for the engagement.
Mr Christie, of course, was not the only one who felt there was a gap between Jamaica's anti-corruption rhetoric and concrete action against the problem. The perception of Jamaica as a corrupt country is widely held. For instance, the island stands in the mid-tier of Transparency International's global Corruption Perception Index that ranks more than 180 countries.
Indeed, measured on the agency's corruption barometer last year, nearly two-thirds of Jamaicans felt that the problem had grown worse over the past year and few of the countries escaped the public's perception that they were mired in corruption. Approximately 80 per cent of us felt that government was run by a few big entities in their own interest, while 85 per cent thought that political parties were corrupt. Three-quarters of the population had the same view of the legislature and 47 per cent of the judiciary.
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Published: Wednesday | March 19, 2014 2 Comments
Greg Christie, the former contractor general whose cacophonous investigations and strident reports discomfited many public officials, often complained that the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) seemed not too eager to bring before the courts those who failed to comply with provisions of the act he policed. He often called for a more robust fight against corruption, with strong institutional support for the engagement.
Mr Christie, of course, was not the only one who felt there was a gap between Jamaica's anti-corruption rhetoric and concrete action against the problem. The perception of Jamaica as a corrupt country is widely held. For instance, the island stands in the mid-tier of Transparency International's global Corruption Perception Index that ranks more than 180 countries.
Indeed, measured on the agency's corruption barometer last year, nearly two-thirds of Jamaicans felt that the problem had grown worse over the past year and few of the countries escaped the public's perception that they were mired in corruption. Approximately 80 per cent of us felt that government was run by a few big entities in their own interest, while 85 per cent thought that political parties were corrupt. Three-quarters of the population had the same view of the legislature and 47 per cent of the judiciary.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/2...cleisure1.html