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Jamaica slips on annual corruption index
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
JAMAICA has slipped three places to 99th on the 2009 corruption index, which ranked New Zealand as the world's least corrupt nation and riotous Somalia the most corrupt.
MUNROE. it coincides with the views of Jamaicans
Only Guyana, which is placed at 126th, is ranked lower than Jamaica in the region.
The 2009 report surveyed 180 countries, ranking them according to perceived levels corruption. Jamaica shares its 99th place with the Dominican Republic, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Madagascar, Senegal, Tonga and Zambia.
Meantime, the world's richest country, the United States of America, has been ranked at 19th, Japan and the United Kingdom at 17th, and China at 79th.
Last night, the National Integrity Action Forum said the decline in Jamaica's ranking on the corruption perception Index was not surprising.
"It coincides with the views of Jamaicans, as reflected in recent national surveys, which reveal that 96 per cent of Jamaicans perceived corruption as widespread and commonplace in the public sphere," said Professor Trevor Munroe, director of the National Integrity Action Forum.
"In 2008, among 22 countries surveyed in Latin America and the Caribbean, Jamaica registered the highest level of citizens perception of the prevalence of corruption in the country," said Professor Munroe.
He added that surveys over the years confirmed the Jamaican people's belief that matters have been getting worse and that something must be done to stem the tide of corruption.
"This latter view underlay the establishment of the National Integrity Action Forum at the UWI's Centre for Leadership and Governance in January 2009.
"The NIAF has brought together critical stakeholders in Jamaica's anti-corruption framework - public officials, private sector and civil society leaders - with the purpose of removing impediments to more meaningful outcomes in combating corruption," Professor Munroe said last night.
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Wednesday, November 18, 2009
JAMAICA has slipped three places to 99th on the 2009 corruption index, which ranked New Zealand as the world's least corrupt nation and riotous Somalia the most corrupt.
MUNROE. it coincides with the views of Jamaicans
Only Guyana, which is placed at 126th, is ranked lower than Jamaica in the region.
The 2009 report surveyed 180 countries, ranking them according to perceived levels corruption. Jamaica shares its 99th place with the Dominican Republic, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Madagascar, Senegal, Tonga and Zambia.
Meantime, the world's richest country, the United States of America, has been ranked at 19th, Japan and the United Kingdom at 17th, and China at 79th.
Last night, the National Integrity Action Forum said the decline in Jamaica's ranking on the corruption perception Index was not surprising.
"It coincides with the views of Jamaicans, as reflected in recent national surveys, which reveal that 96 per cent of Jamaicans perceived corruption as widespread and commonplace in the public sphere," said Professor Trevor Munroe, director of the National Integrity Action Forum.
"In 2008, among 22 countries surveyed in Latin America and the Caribbean, Jamaica registered the highest level of citizens perception of the prevalence of corruption in the country," said Professor Munroe.
He added that surveys over the years confirmed the Jamaican people's belief that matters have been getting worse and that something must be done to stem the tide of corruption.
"This latter view underlay the establishment of the National Integrity Action Forum at the UWI's Centre for Leadership and Governance in January 2009.
"The NIAF has brought together critical stakeholders in Jamaica's anti-corruption framework - public officials, private sector and civil society leaders - with the purpose of removing impediments to more meaningful outcomes in combating corruption," Professor Munroe said last night.
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