Just days before the local government elections in Jamaica, the country’s main anti-corruption body, the Office of the Contractor General (OCG), has opened a probe into a government bush-clearing programme, the source of tensions between the administration and the Opposition People’s National Party (PNP).
The opposition party is contending that the programme is being used by the Holness administration to ‘buy’ support ahead of Monday’s elections.
Contractor General Dirk Harrison’s probe was confirmed yesterday by the National Works Agency (NWA), which is spearheading the project that the PNP said bypassed its political representatives.