Now I’m gonna y’all about corruption for a bit and why BOTH parties are implicit in the abject fuckery (which let’s be honest we already knew), and why we as a country aren’t serious enough about it.

Firstly let’s start with this basic fact, we are a corrupt country.

Feel free to deny that thought all you want but corruption is so ingrained in our practices that we don’t even realize we’re being corrupt.

We therefore need to nip it in the bud which to me starts with politicians.

See me now, by training... I’m a lawyer and as such I like to

Take a legal look at things starting with PNPs statement that The DPP isn’t doing enough though they’ve given her a basket to carry water. How?

Let’s look at the corruption prevention act of 2005. This piece of wasted legislation was supposed to help police out practices...

By creating the offence of corruption and requiring public servants to give declarations as to their earnings and assets.

Now this whole declaration process is fool imo. But let’s look at the act itself, specifically section 14 which speaks about what corruption is

Apologies y’all gonna have to read today this is the section...

Note specifically 14 (1) a). Which sounds straight forward but is actually really really difficult to prove.

You’d need to show a judge that a person accepted a benefit to do or not do something...

Let’s look at a case like... Petrojam. By what we’ve heard and what the report says the HR Director was appointed while seemingly skipping the majority of the hiring process.

Does this show that somebody accepted a benefit? How do we find somebody guilty of corruption then?

I’m not saying it’s impossible and I’m simply trying to simplify it for twitter, but it’s a uphill task to try to tackle corruption when this law only covers one particular aspect of what corruption really is.

Peter Espeut wrote about this last year too: http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/commentary/20190208/peter-espeut-deficit-anti-corruption-law

Now let’s contrast this with Cayman’s anti corruption law which was brought to my attention by a friend who is not on twitter... lemme just buss y’all on the table of contents alone see how deep and Detailed it goes? But let’s dig deeper

Let’s start with section 11 to show how to properly write an offence. Yes more reading but it’s important.

Similar to us it says public officer OR A FAMILY MEMBER or ANY PERSON FOR THE BENEFIT OF A PUBLIC OFFICER?

First HUGE difference there. This ties in everybody!

Then it says accepts or offers... a loan, reward, advantage, or other benefit(yet again wider)...

And this part I love

“Whether or not in fact the officer is able to cooperate render assistance exercise influence as the case may be”

This means u can’t...

Give George (or George child, cousin, Aunty etc) money, who will then tell Patrick to do something.

Everybody involved corrupt. This looks like legislation meant to stop corruption...

Now consider the petrojam scandal with this law in mind...

Somebody woulda gone jail long time don’t?

Our politicians on both sides have and continue to fail us by doing willful things like this, they are well aware of the limitations of our legislation and continue to take advantage of it.

Is nepotism defined in Jamaican laws?

I’m legit asking that question, tho I kinda already know the answer but I’m willing to be corrected on that ground.

However this is just an example of how limiting our legislation is and what allows our politicians to be able to act with such impunity and start look scapegoat

Even though they themselves created the problem. It’s just plain And simple rubbish and unacceptable