The Integrity Commission has served notice to 31 public officers that they face a fine and imprisonment if they don’t submit their 2022 Declaration Form on or before April 2nd , 2024 and among those listed as defaulters are the acting Top Cop Clifton Hicken; the GWI CEO Shaik Baksh; the CEO of the NDIA, Frederick Flatts and the Vice Chancellor of UG, Dr Paloma Mohamed.
In the Official Gazette of March 2nd, 2024, the Integrity Commission said that Pursuant to Section 19 of the Integrity Commission Act, as at 16th February, 2024 the 31 Specified Persons in Public Life failed to submit their declaration to the Integrity Commission for the 2022 declarations period (1st July, 2021 to 30th June 2022).
It said that the specified persons in public life are requested to submit their 2022 Declaration Form on or before 2nd April, 2024.
“Continued failure to file will now constitute an offence as per Section 22 of the Commission’s Act, No. 20 of 1997. The offence stipulates in Section 22 a fine of twenty-five thousand Guyana Dollars (GYD $25,000) together with six (6) months nor more than one-year imprisonment term’, the notice said.
Among others in default are Ivor Thom – Administrator, Burrowes School of Arts, Castellani House; Raymon Cummings – Registrar General, General Registrar’s Office; Brigadier Godfrey Bess, former Chief of Staff (ag) of the Guyana Defence Force; Gregory Wickham – Chief Fire Officer (ag), the Guyana Fire Service; Dr Dwight Walrond – Chief Executive Officer (ag), the Guyana Livestock and Development Authority; Nigel Hoppie, former Commissioner of Police.
Others on the list are Thurston Semple, Chief Executive Officer, the Lethem Power Company; Horace Williams, CEO of the Hinterland Electrification Co. Inc; Holly Greaves, General Manager of the National Insurance Scheme and Lloyd Moore, former Chief Executive Officer of the Gaming Authority of Guyana.
