Integrity Commission (IC) Executive Director Greg Christie has strongly rejected calls for his resignation, declaring that he has been unbiased in his duties over the last three years at the anti-corruption agency. Photo: Internet Source

The commission’s publishing of a ruling exonerating Prime Minister Andrew Holness two days after the February 14 tabling of a report referring him for a corruption probe sparked a firestorm about procedure, law, and conspiracy.

“I have carried out my job obligations faithfully and diligently, and above all, with scrupulous integrity. I have done nothing wrong,” Christie said in a Gleaner interview Sunday.

“I have faithfully complied with the instructions and directives of the chairman and commissioners, to whom I report, inclusive of instructions that are associated with the issues that are now in the public domain,” the anti-corruption campaigner added.

Government senators have called for the resignation of Christie or that the commissioners ask him to quit.

“The unjust treatment of the recently tabled Integrity Commission report and belated publication of the related ruling has been presided over by its executive director,” the senators said in a statement issued last Friday.

The report, which was published by the clerk to the Houses of Parliament on February 15, indicated that Holness may have influenced the award of contracts to Robert Garvin, a former employee, business partner, and someone he knew for more than 20 years.

Director of Investigations Kevon Stephenson had referred the report, dated October 2022, implicating Holness in an alleged conflict of interest to Director of Corruption Prosecution Keisha Prince-Kameka for a ruling.

However, the February 16 release by the commission of the January 12 Prince-Kameka decision, which absolved Holness of any criminal action, triggered an avalanche of criticism from several non-governmental and private-sector groups.