Legislation being mulled to give Integrity Commission teeth

Government is looking to pass legislation that will give the Integrity Commission the power to go after public officials who fail to declare their assets in a timely manner, according to Minister of State Joseph Harmon.

“I can assure you that it is something that we are very concerned about so that people who are in public life cannot then start making demands that you declare before I declare…,” he said at a post-Cabinet press briefing last Friday. “It would be law that by a certain time of the year, you declare your assets and if you don’t then the commission