Prime

Minister Andrew Holness has said that he was saddened by the arrest of former Education

Minister Ruel Reid last Wednesday (Oct 9) on corruption charges.

“There is no

question that it saddens me, that it saddens the entire party, and I know you

who sit here as well, you are indeed very saddened, very concern about what

happened,” Holness said.

Holness was

speaking at a JLP Area Council One meeting at the Girl Guides Association of

Jamaica headquarters in St Andrew on Sunday (Oct 13).

Reid was

arrested along with his wife Sharen, his daughter Sharelle President of the

Caribbean Maritime (CMU) University Professor Fritz Pinnock and Kim Brown

Lawrence, councillor for the Brown’s Town division in St Ann. They were offered

bail when they appeared before the Kingston and St Andrew Parish Court last Thursday

(Oct 10).

At the same

time, the prime minister said that his administration will not tolerate

corruption.

“We will do

everything in our power to ensure that wherever there is corruption, wherever

there is misuse of power, misappropriation of public resources, that this

administration will ensure that the mechanisms are in place to ferret it out

and bring them before the courts,” said Holness.