REDACTED 2 - IC Petrojam Investigation - Recruitment and Parties October 18, 2019 final

Page 33 of 486 Petrojam Limited Integrity Commission October 2019 DISCUSSION OF FINDINGS The Circumstances Surrounding the Recruitment of Certain Individuals to Petrojam Limited for the period November 2016 to December 2018 The Commission is mandated to investigate “ alleged or suspected acts of corruption ” pursuant to Section 6 of the Integrity Commission Act. In the conduct of its Investigation, the DI deemed it prudent to determine the policy guidelines, if any, which governed the recruitment of employees to Petrojam Limited. By way of a policy/procedural manual entitled “ THE RECRUITMENT PROCESS ”, which was made effective January 2005 and approved by Mr. Winston Watson, Managing Director, the following, inter alia , was stated: “ BASIC EMPLOYMENT PRINCIPLES Goal : The aim of the recruitment policy is to provide a framework for managing recruitment and selection within the workplace. The goal of the recruitment process at Petrojam is to hire people with the required technical competence that will contribute to achieving the Company’s strategic objectives and display the expected behaviours that match the Company values. … …Other guiding principles in the recruitment process are: i) Recruitment and selection processes will be administered in a fair and consistent manner ii) This policy applies to the recruitment of all staff. …