-transparency institute calls for urgent appointment of oversight bodies
Guyana remains among countries rated as having a serious corruption problem in the latest Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), prompting the local watchdog body to urge the overdue appointment of key oversight bodies and the strengthening of those already in place but too weak to tackle white-collar crime.
With a score of 28 out of 100 points, Guyana ranks 133 out of 176 countries surveyed for the 2012 CPI, which was released yesterday, and it has ranked worse than every other country in the Caribbean except for Haiti.
Using an updated methodology this year, the CPI measures perceived levels of public sector corruption, on a scale from 0 (perceived to be highly corrupt) to 100 (perceived to be very clean) and any score below 50 indicates a serious problem.
