Last Thursday – International Human Rights Day 2020, and a day after International Anti-Corruption Day – the government of United States President Donald Trump announced travel and other sanctions against six present and past Jamaican policemen who were part of the controversial Reneto Adams-led Crime Management Unit (CMU). According to The Gleaner of December 11, 2020, the CMU was criticised as a “trigger-happy police squad that committed multiple extrajudicial killings”, and the State Department revealed that the six were targeted by Washington for their involvement in gross violations in human rights in Jamaica”, citing the extrajudicial killings of four people – two men and two women – on May 7, 2003 at Kraal in Clarendon.
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Dear Justice Zondo,
We the undersigned organisations, whistle-blowers and human rights activists, co-ordinated by Open Secrets, write to you as the Commission of Inquiry into Allegations of State Capture, Corruption and Fraud enters its important final phase of work. We write to you today concerning a glaring gap in your work to date: framing the accountability of those corporations complicit in State Capture. There is an urgent need to call corporations to provide detailed evidence of their alleged complicity in State Capture to the commission.
We recognise that the commission is under significant pressure and believe that recent legal steps taken by the commission to compel former president Jacob Zuma to appear in a public forum to account before the commission is to be lauded and is a step in the right direction. However, impunity thrives on a culture of silence and inaction. We believe that it is important to remind individuals such as Zuma that we are all equal before the law
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Attorney General Dale Marshall has promised to continue Government’s efforts to fight against corruption.
Marshall gave this commitment during the Institute of Chartered Accountants’ of Barbados and Integrity Group Barbados’
The Fight Against Corruption In Barbados virtual panel discussion to mark International Anti-Corruption Day, recently.
He Marshall told the panel that an amended Prevention of Corruption Bill would be back in Parliament in the new year, while legislation would be drafted to facilitate Whistleblowing.
In a statement issued by Barbados Government Information Service, he said the Freedom of Information Bill is still to be completed, and lamented the absence of drafters to finalise the bills.
The St Kitts Nevis Observer
Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs, Dale Marshall. (FP)
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados–December 16th, 2020–Barbados Attorney General Dale Marshall has promised to continue Government’s efforts to fight against corruption.
He gave this commitment during the Institute of Chartered Accountants’ of Barbados and Integrity Group Barbados’ The Fight Against Corruption in Barbados virtual panel discussion to mark International Anti-Corruption Day, recently.
Mr. Marshall told the panel that an amended Prevention of Corruption Bill would be back in Parliament in the new year, while legislation would be drafted to facilitate Whistleblowing.
He stated that the Freedom of Information Bill is still to be completed, and lamented the absence of drafters to finalize the bills.