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Public Bodies Referred for Prosecution

On October 30, 2006, the Office of the Contractor General (OC-G) issued a formal Warning of Prosecution to the Accounting and Principal Officers of over 180 Public Bodies.

The primary objective of the Warning was to advise that Public Bodies and Public Officers who continued to ignore, or failed to comply with, the lawful requisitions of the OCG, would be referred for prosecution under Section 29 of the Contractor General Act.

Please click on the relevant links below to read the OC-G’s Letter of Warning and its related Media Release of October 30, 2006.

In keeping with the terms of its Warning, the OC-G has so far referred the names of several Public Bodies to the Director of Public Prosecutions.

To view the names of the Public Bodies which have been formally referred to the Director of Public Prosecutions, please click below on the six (6) OC-G Media Release links of March 21, 2007, May 29, 2007, September 17, 2007, November 27, 2007, March 27, 2008 and May 30, 2008.

        Letter of Warning (October 30, 2006)
        Media Release (October 30, 2006)
        Media Release (March 21, 2007)
        Media Release (May 29, 2007)
        Letter to Gleaner Editor (May 30, 2007)
        Media Release (September 17, 2007)
        Media Release (November 27, 2007)
        Media Release (February 19, 2008)
        Media Release (March 27, 2008)
        Media Release (March 30, 2008)

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