BREAKING NEWS! IC Faces MAJOR Government PUSHBACK 😳Serious and Troubling‼️

Added: 2026-05-25

[00:00:00]He said the investigation had identified several ministry officers as integral to engagements and payments to a contractor and that the probe had revealed evidence of familiar links between staff of the Ministry of Health and Wellness and the contractors. And we do not need any eye glass to see what is going on here.

[00:00:21]There is a pattern and an intent at all times to tie up the integrity commissions in the court.

[00:00:38]Blessings ABR family and viewers.

[00:00:40]Welcome back to the channel. It's your girl Anabella Rose. And in this one, another court battle involving the Integrity Commission. And this time it's between them and the Ministry of Health.

[00:00:53]The Integrity Commission sites corruption needs more information, but the Ministry of Health is balling out about privacy.

[00:01:03]Please to stay tuned for the details at hand. Don't forget to like, share, and subscribe to the channel as well as hype up the videos. This one is where the cookie crumbles. When I tell you that the Integrity Commission is under some serious attack by this current administration, you best believe that.

[00:01:22]So we all know that the integrity commission is the principal or the primary you know anti-corruption agency in our country and since its inception in 2017 it basically took over from the contractor general and from that time until now the integrity commission have been facing a whole heap of legal challenges legal battles from public officials state agencies and even politically connected figures who always trying to tie up the integrity commission in the court and when we heard Dr. Alfred doors stating that the level of failure under this administration is not just you know a a oneoff thing is a pattern. So they have a pattern in which they are trying to fight the very same you know entities that are set there to oversee and to basically hold them to account.

[00:02:22]>> This is not incompetence. This is not bureaucracy. This is a pattern. And before I get into the meat of the matter, let us look at the pattern of this highly highly corrupt administration.

[00:02:42]Who heads the list here? Andrew only challenging the integrity commission over the 177 pages of report based on his whole you know financials.

[00:02:56]When we look at him wanting the in um the courts to compel integrity commission to strike out illicit enrichment declaring it as unconstitutional. When we look at a Xavier man, you know, who was basically cited for possible conflict of interest by the integrity commission, want to go ahead tie up the integrity commission into the courts challenging them, rejecting the claims, right, of non-compliance. When we look at a council over there by the brownstone, you know, integrity commission denies clearing her of fraud and corruption charges. When we look at, you know, uh, exjp MP Lesie Campbell, who who passed away the other day, he was charged by the Integrity Commission 400,000 fine.

[00:03:48]Right. When we look at the Spectrum Management Authority going into the courts to basically ask them to block an ongoing IC corruption probe, the IC is investigating allegations that the SMA bypass competitive bidding to favor specific vendors of technical equipment and consultancy services. The court had gone ahead and basically blocked IC that they said acting illegally and abusing its powers resulting in, you know, the permission to pursue a judicial review and issuing temporary injunction restricting parts of the IC investigation.

[00:04:27]What can really go? So, so let us get into this whole debacle now. Again, another one, you know, a battle from the government, Ministry of Health with the Integrity Commission. And it reads here from the Jamaica Gleer. The immediate trigger is the commission's investigation into alleged irregularities in contracts for the renovation of six Kingston apartments awarded under the Jamaica Cuba Eye Care Program, part of a 50-year bilateral medical arrangement Jamaica terminated in March amid pressure from the United States. The Integrity Commission issued a formal notice to the ministry dated August 28th, 2025 demanding a wide range of information. The ministry partially complied by handing over procurement documents but refused to provide the employment files of eight current and former officials citing privacy concerns.

[00:05:29]When correspondence failed to resolve the impass, the commission on February 25, 2026 served a summon to witness on Green compelling his appearance on March 27 with the files. The government filed an urgent application on March 23rd.

[00:05:46]So they had gone ahead and filed challenging the request. On March 26, Justice Simone Wolf Ree granted narrow interim injunctions blocking the IC from acting on the notice and summons until a decision on the permission application is made. Green contended the files contain highly sensitive information unrelated to procurement. Their invariable will be data in the employee files for example medical information, leave information, etc. which do not touch and concern procurement and or the respondents investigation about alleged corruption. According to him, the integrity commission and Steven's goal is to investigate government contracts etc. not inquire into personal information which is not relevant to their substantive remmit. He further argued that disclosing the data could expose the government of Jamaica to constitutional challenges while insisting, "I am in no way trying to obstruct or slow down the respondents investigation."

[00:06:54]Green also alleged the February summons was retaliatory.

[00:06:58]The issuing of the summons to witness in light of the attorney general's application mentioned above is designed to intimidate me into cooperation.

[00:07:09]Stevenson has denied that allegation.

[00:07:12]Stevenson also argued that requests for personnel and employment files had assisted the commission in previous investigation that resulted in criminal prosecutions.

[00:07:23]The commission further argued that the health ministry was not unique in receiving such requests. And according to Stevenson, in eight other investigations where the commission requested personnel files, eight government entities complied fully without relying on the data protection act to resist disclosure. So who them try for fool? Who them try to take for?

[00:07:48]This is a pattern, a tactic to fight against integrity commission. This government is flawed and corrupted in in every sense of the word. The government in its filings argued the commission's powers though broad are not unlimited and must be exercised proportionately.

[00:08:06]It invoked the charter of fundamental rights and freedoms and the data protection act contending the ministry could itself breach the law by surrendering the records without sufficient legal justification.

[00:08:20]According to the attorney general, the commission and Stevenson failed to properly interpret and apply section 481A of the integrity commission act in purporting to compel submission of documents that contain material concerning the personal privacy of the officials. Section 48 empowers the director of investigations to compel documents or information specifying that no secrecy obligation including the official secrets act can block compliance. However, it also provides that no one can be compelled to produce material protected by legal professional privilege or which they could not otherwise be compelled to produce in court. a protection the government argues extends to sensitive personal data in the employment files. The commission has rejected the government's argument, noting that Green was complying with the request for documents well before court action was filed.

[00:09:21]Senior investigator Sanjay Harrison stated in a sworn affidavit that the files were needed to identify handwriting samples, banking details, and contact information necessary to verify any nexus of potential fraud and irregularities identified in the award of contracts by the Ministry of Health and Wellness. He said the investigation had identified several ministry officers as integral to engagements and payments to a contractor and that the probe had revealed evidence of familiar links between staff of the Ministry of Health and Wellness and the contractors.

[00:10:01]According to him, the Integrity Commission's investigative powers ought not to be easily overridden by general privacy concerns without context.

[00:10:10]Stevenson similarly argued that based on Harrisoning's evidence, the request for the files is anything but sweeping and is instead relevant and targeted as the investigation evolved.

[00:10:24]And we do not need any eye glass to see what is going on here. There is a pattern and an intent at all times to tie up the integrity commissions in the court. And does this surprise us of you know possible fraud corruption at the Ministry of Health? It does not. When we can look back at a market me when we can look back at many other things that came to the public procurement breaches and all of that, you know, look at the big one up there by the University Hospital of the West Indies is a systemic thing.

[00:11:05]corruption in every entity right across the board and it has been turned up under this administration from 2016 up until now and I don't know what the Jamaican people are waiting for to come out and to make outcry demanding the resignation of a whole heap of these members of parliament ministers from the government side here what the government is stating after they have gone to seek judicial review.

[00:11:35]The government has insisted, however, that the injunctions do not halt the corruption investigation, but merely halt the seizure of personnel and employment files until this court determines the legal issues concerning sim. How can they come and say that foolishness if them not go get the relevant um documents and information that they need to to to verify or to compare?

[00:12:04]How is it going to push the investigation in alcohol investigation?

[00:12:09]However, as Stevenson is stating that all of this action by the government could damage active investigations when see with the whole FLA integrity commission report that was sent to the parliament.

[00:12:27]They are going above and beyond to prevent from tableabling those report for us to see what is going on. This is a low trust administration cannot be trusted not even with a dime. Corruption is rife under the Andrew only administration and we must demand transparency them have no transparency in them. No accountability in them.

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