Trinidad and Tobago First Country to Pilot New Commonwealth Anti-Corruption Benchmarks
April 15, 2022 | Colin O. Jarrett |
Trinidad and Tobago is the first Commonwealth country to benefit from training programmes for government officials in its recently-launched anti-corruption framework.
The Commonwealth Secretariat, in partnership with the Global Infrastructure Anti-Corruption Centre and the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors, last year published a landmark set of measures to support efforts to fight corruption.
#Corruption costs the global economy $3.6 trillion every year.
⚖️ The #Commonwealth is rolling out a series of training programmes for government officials as part of its anti-corruption framework, starting with a pilot in #TrinidadandTobago.
Read about our recent workshop 👇
— The Commonwealth (@commonwealthsec) April 14, 2022
As the first country to pilot the Commonwealth Anti-Corruption Benchmarks, local officials and law enforcement officers joined a two-day workshop aimed at helping the government and public sector organizations assess their anti-corruption laws, regulations, policies and procedures against international good practice and consider implementing appropriate improvements.
Colin O. Jarrett is a Caribbean News Editor with Vision Newspaper
Alwin Marshall-Squire is the Editor-in-Chief of S-Q Publications Inc., overseeing editorial strategy for GTA Weekly, GTA Today, and Vision Newspaper. He leads the publications’ mission to deliver bold, original journalism focused on the people and communities of the Greater Toronto Area, Canada, and the global Caribbean diaspora.
Also writes for GTA Weekly and GTA Today.
