Caribbean Anti-Corruption Conference Starts Monday

Heads and other delegates from integrity commissions and anti-corruption agencies in the Commonwealth Caribbean meet on Grand Cayman from Monday, 3 – Friday, 7 June 2019 for the fifth annual conference of the Commonwealth Caribbean Association of Integrity Commissions and Anti-Corruption Bodies (CCAICACB).

Secretary-General of the Commonwealth, Rt. Hon. Patricia Scotland, Q.C., will deliver the opening remarks at the opening ceremony on Monday, 3 June at 9 am, to be held at the Grand Cayman Marriott Beach Resort. The theme for the conference this year that is organised locally by the Commissions for Standards in Public Life (CSPL), is “Transforming Words into Action: Revitalising the Fight Against Corruption.”

His Excellency the Governor, Mr. Martyn Roper, OBE, will declare the conference open and the CI Cadet Corps will participate in the opening ceremony with the procession of flags.

Commissions Secretariat Manager Deborah Bodden outlined that this will be first time that the Cayman Islands will host the event. This year’s conference is sponsored by the Commonwealth Fund for Technical Cooperation, the Commonwealth Secretariat, CSPL and the Cayman Islands Government.

Attendees comprise delegates from anti-corruption units from Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, St. Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos, as well as from the host country, the Cayman Islands.

Others include representatives from the Commonwealth Secretariat, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, National Integrity Action Jamaica and the Robert H. Smith of Business at the University of Maryland.

Panel discussions will cover corruption in sports, modernising legislative frameworks, the investigative battle against corruption and new technologies to combat corruption. Additionally, representatives from each country will provide updates on the past year’s work of their countries’ commissions.

“We are very excited that the Cayman Islands is hosting this year’s event as this annual conference has a very useful purpose. I believe we all have a lot to learn and share in both the development and implementation of meaningful and effective strategies for controlling corruption,” CSPL Chairperson and local attorney, Ms Rosie Myles commented.