A local business lobby and the island’s main civil service union say the principle of regular government workers being sent on leave or suspended to facilitate probes should be applied to six yet-unnamed lawmakers being investigated for illicit.
Revelations this week by the Integrity Commission (IC) that the six parliamentarians being probed for illicit enrichment have been notified of the investigations have again placed the spotlight on the so-called gag clause. Jeanette Calder,.
Isat Buchanan’s apology yesterday, for lewd comments directed at Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Paula Llewellyn, has been judged insufficient by Metry Seaga, president of the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica (PSOJ). Seaga yesterday.
WITH THE disclosure that six parliamentarians are being investigated for alleged illicit enrichment and seven lawmakers being probed for providing false information to the Integrity Commission (IC), head of the National Integrity Action (NIA).
ALL EYES will be on the Senate tomorrow as its president, Tom Tavares Finson, confirmed to The Gleaner yesterday that six reports of investigation sent to the Houses of Parliament on June 20 by the Integrity Commission will be tabled in the Upper.