GOVERNMENT SENATOR Professor Trevor Munroe on Friday, October 24/03, gave notice of the following private member's motion in the Senate:
WHEREAS there is considerable public concern that the award of contracts, the distribution of land and opportunities for employment should be free from partisan political influence; and
WHEREAS the Constitution of Jamaica enshrines the freedom from discrimination on grounds of politics; and
WHEREAS successive governments have established institutions such as the Offices of the Contractor-General, the Political Ombudsman and the Public Defender in part, to monitor and report the incidence of political partisanship in the award of scarce benefits; and
WHEREAS the annual reports of these bodies are invariably tabled but not debated in the Senate:
BE IT RESOLVED that this honourable Senate debates the contents of and expresses appreciation for the Report of the Contractor-General 2000.
