Anti-corruption watchdogs from around the region will meet in Grand Cayman this week for the fifth annual conference of the Commonwealth Caribbean Association of Integrity Commissions and Anti-Corruption Bodies.
Patricia Scotland, the secretary-general of the Commonwealth, will open the week-long conference Monday morning with a speech at the Grand Cayman Marriott Beach Resort.
The theme for this year’s conference, organised locally by the Commission for Standards in Public Life, is ‘Transforming Words into Action: Revitalising the Fight Against Corruption’.
Commissions Secretariat Manager Deborah Bodden said this is the first time for the Cayman Islands to host the event, which will be attended by anti-corruption unites from Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, St. Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos, as well as from Cayman.
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,” said local attorney Rosie Myles, who leads Cayman’s Commission on Standards in Public Life.
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