REDACTED -IC Petrojam Investigation - Donations October 2019 final

Page 101 of 215 Petrojam Limited Integrity Commission October 2019 The DI notes that the above memorandum requesting the approval of the Board for the donation is dated March 29, 2017, whereas the letter of request from Mr. Phillip Paulwell which was observed by the DI on the files sequestered from Petrojam Limited was dated April 3, 2017. The Submission to the Board of Directors of Petrojam Limited for the referenced donation was prepared for Mrs. Yolande Ramharrack, Manager Human Resource Development and Administration Manager on April 4, 2017. The submission was endorsed by Mr. Floyd Grindley, former General Manager, on the same date. The submission however, did not include the signature of Dr. Perceval Bahado-Singh, Chairman of the Board. The ‘Round Robin Resolution’, which was prepared and which included the approval for the donation to the Camperdown High School was dated April 6, 2017. The ‘Round Robin Resolution’ which was reviewed by the DI bore the signatures of Dr. Perceval Bahado-Singh, Mr. Harold Malcolm and Mr. Richard Creary from the Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica. The signature of one ‘Maria A Colmen Ares’ signed on behalf of PDV Caribe S.A. Another ‘Round Robin Resolution’ which was reviewed by the DI bore the signatures of Dr. Perceval Bahado-Singh and Mr. Richard Creary and for the PDV Caribe S.A. the signatures of Maria A Colmen Ares, Williams Martinez and Ramon Uzcateg were observed. In relation to the allegation that Mr. Floyd Grindley instructed that a donation in the amount of $6,000,000.00 be made to the Camperdown High School, Mr. Grindley provided, inter alia , as follows: “… Upon my office receiving any request for donations, the practice is to pass on the request to the Public Relations Officer within the Human Resource department for review/processing; this was done as it relates to the donation requested by 70 Memorandum dated March 29, 2017, from Mr. Floyd Grindley, former General Manager, to the Board of Directors, Petrojam Limited.