Officials occupying high profile public sector positions in other Caribbean Community (CARICOM) territories will probably be paying more than peripheral interest in this week’s earlier media report that Jamaica’s Integrity Commission has initiated criminal prosecutions against two of the island’s public officials for alleged breaches of the country’s Corruption Prevention Act.
CNG media, on Tuesday, reported that Patrick James, who was then serving as a Senior Motor Vehicle Inspector (acting), employed with the country’s Traffic Authority, and Dr Gitanjali Baburam, who was then serving with the South East Regional Health Authority (SERHA), were placed before the Courts on Monday last in the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court Criminal Division, in Half Way Tree.