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Steve White

08/12/15 11:25 AM

#44254 RE: captgor #44231

Maybe you should check their own DD:

“Indeed, if I may be permitted a brief burst of boastful pride, there is nothing in the whole of my more than 40 consecutive years in front line politics of which I am more proud than the fact that there has never been any serious allegation of corruption leveled against me.” These are the words of Prime Minister Perry Christie made during his lecture at the recently held University College of the Cayman Islands’ anti-corruption conference: “Towards a Corruption – Free Caribbean: Ethics, Values, Trust and Morality.” Ironically, on the eve of this conference the headlines of Bahamian newspapers broke the story of the prime minister’s abuse of power in the Ishmael Lightbourne saga.

In making a reference to the Bahamas’ results in the Corruption Perception Index (CPI) — the annual index used to measure the perceived levels of public sector corruption around the world — published annually by Transparency International (TI), the prime minister further stated: “In fact, it bears noting that the Bahamas’ CPI score outranks many countries that have formal anti-corruption oversight bodies and specific anti-corruption laws.”