REDACTED -IC Petrojam Investigation - Donations October 2019 final

Page 77 of 215 Petrojam Limited Integrity Commission October 2019 [IC Officer] : … in relation to the Sydenham Citizens Association donation . What does the policy indicate is required in term of approval, is it full board approval or would a partial board approval be required based on the policy? … A: Anything exceeding $320,000 would require submission to the board and by board that would mean full board, the legal officer would submit that to the board if it’s probably very urgent she would probably do it via round robin … [IC Officer] : What was the basis upon which Petrojam made the donation to Sydenham Citizens Association without the full board approval? A: I don’t know .” 50 (DI Emphasis) The DI requested that Mr. Floyd Grindley respond to the allegation that, as former General Manager, Petrojam Limited, he specifically instructed that the donation in the amount of $9,000,000.00 be repurposed from McCooks Pen Citizens Association and transferred to the Sydenham Citizen’s Association. By way of his response dated July 23, 2019, Mr. Grindley stated, inter alia , the following: “ …A letter was received from Sydenham Citizen Association, which I later gathered is an entity within the Portfolio Minister (Dr. Andrew Wheatly (sic) ) Constituency requesting that the previously 50 Transcript of hearing held on November 20, 2018, involving [REPRESENTATIVE] . Pages 53-56 and 66- 67.