KINGSTON, Jamaica, Jun 1, CMC -The 12th Annual Conference of the Commonwealth Caribbean Association of Integrity Commissions and Anti-Corruption Bodies (CCAICACB) began here on Monday with delegates seeking to strengthening regional integrity efforts and anti-corruption mechanisms in an evolving global environment.
CCAICACB chairperson, Anande Trotman-Joseph, acknowledging that while this “work will take an eternity…we go, continuously, as we engage on pressing challenges and opportunities facing the world and by extension our own organisations”.
She said geopolitical and geoeconomics impact may create an atmosphere of fear and anxiety, a perfect backdrop for corruption in the absence of peace.
“The effects of wars in several global theatres impact our own region’s economies, resulting in what we all know, rising prices at the gas pumps, food prices escalating in our supermarkets and even our own war theatre in the Caribbean in a war against drugs resulting in many Caribbean casualties.
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