OCG St. Ann Probe

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St. Ann Municipal Corporation Office of the Contractor General November 2017

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…the entire affair surrounding Prickly Pole Primary stinks

of political corruption and can only serve to prejudice the

school as an institution and the wider community.

“Separate and apart from the contractor general's

investigation, the prime minister should recognise the

glaring conflict of interests in this matter, restrict her

ministers from further actions, and launch an independent

investigation into the whole sordid affair,”

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Member of Parliament for St. Ann South Eastern, Lisa

Hanna, has spoken publicly for the first time regarding

claims by some members of her constituency about the

allocation of three million dollars to pave the grounds of

the Prickly Pole Primary School. She says the project was

never approved for execution, and no money was

spent

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(OCG Emphasis)

Having regard to the foregoing and considering the immense public interest, the OCG took a decision to

subsume this matter within the scope of its captioned investigation involving,

inter alia

, the Office of the

Member of Parliament, South East, St. Ann. In this regard and during the course of a hearing, involving

Ms. Lydia Richards, Councillor, Bensonton Division, South East, St. Ann, which was convened on

September 28, 2015, the following representations were made:

“Q: We are looking into a matter which came into

some prominence in the news recently,

and it is

in respect of allegation of work that was done at the

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Extract from Media Article dated September 25, 2017 –

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Extract from Media Article dated September 24, 2015 –