86 regional officials named for failing to declare assets

Dec 08, 2018 News

Weeks after publishing the names of several top officials of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) who failed to declare their assets, in accordance to regulatory obligations, the Integrity Commission has published names of 86 regional officials who are also late.
And the names include top regional officials, including chairmen, their deputies and even the chief accounting officers- the Regional Executive Officers.
The Commission disclosed in October that 1,296 letters were sent to public officers who are mandated to file their declarations with the Commission on or before June 30, each year.
As of early October, the Commission had received 248 responses and only a few MPs had responded. The response rate at the time was 19%.
Under the law, any public officer who fails to comply with the Commission is liable upon summary conviction, to a fine of $25,000 and to imprisonment for a period of not less than six months or more than one year.
Public officers including the President, Permanent Secretaries, Director of Public Prosecutions, Auditor General, Commissioner of Police, the Army Chief, Heads of the Service Commissions, Foreign Affairs officials, Judges and Magistrates and Department Heads are required to declare their assets.
Also required to submit declaration forms of their earnings and gifts received are Regional Executive Officers, the Chief Elections Officer, Mayors, Chairpersons and Chief Executive Officers of state companies, Registrars of Lands and the Commissioner-General of Guyana Revenue Authority, along with Presidential Advisors, and Heads of the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission and Guyana Forestry Commission.
Public officers are also required to operate within the Integrity Commission (Amendment of the Code of Conduct) Order 2017, which addresses, frontally, matters relating to discrimination, bribes, conflict of interest, handling of classified information, use of public property and sexual misconduct, among others.
According to the Official Gazette published December 8, 2018, the nearly 100 persons in public life in the various regional administrations failed to submit their declarations to the Integrity Commission.
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