REDACTED -IC Petrojam Investigation - Donations October 2019 final

Page 122 of 215 Petrojam Limited Integrity Commission October 2019 The Submission to the Board of Directors of Petrojam Limited for the referenced donation was prepared by Mrs. Roselee Scott- Heron, former Human Resource Development and Administration Manager, and was endorsed/approved, on April 27, 2015, by Mr. Howard Mollison, then General Manager and Mr. Erwin Jones, then Chairman, Board of Directors. Verification of the Receipt of Donation The DI by way of a requisition to the Jamaica Athletic Administration Association on April 17, 2019, sought to ascertain, inter alia , whether the entity was in receipt of sums which were donated and whether same was utilised for the intended purpose. Mr. Warren Blake, President, JAAA, in his response dated May 22, 2019, stated, inter alia , the following: “ … The meet has been the recipient of sponsorship from Petrojam since around 2012 in the form of an annual amount of $5,000,000.00 … Petrojam was only one of several governmental entities to lend support to the meet. … this has been ongoing since 2012. Request are usually made at the end of the year proceeding the meet, which normally takes place on the first Saturday in May. … The meet organizing committee authorized the request and the letters were under the signatures of the chairman Dr. Warren Blake and the Deputy Chairman Mr. Ludlow Watts.