Simpson Miller to speak on Integrity Commission Report in Parliament
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Opposition Leader and People’s National Party (PNP) President Portia Simpson Miller is expected to address the House next week on matters relating to her report to Parliament’s Integrity Commission.
A statement from the PNP late Friday said Simpson Miller will “table a statement which speaks specifically and decisively to integrity issues and her own Report to the Integrity Commission”.
A number of political commentators as well as head of the National Integrity Action Trevor Munroe have called for the Opposition leader and other legislators to make public their financial records.
Last week, Prime Minister Andrew Holness said he will take legislation to Parliament shortly to ensure that holders of four major political offices in the island declare their personal assets on a yearly basis and make them public.
Holness, in declaring his assets recently amid growing calls for public disclosure, said that his proposal would require the prime minister, the minister of finance, as well as the leader of the Opposition and the Opposition’s spokesperson on finance to declare their assets and make them public, annually.