Jamaica has fallen two places in the latest corruption perception index, released today by Transparency International.
The country was ranked 85 out of 175 countries this year, compared to 83 last year.
Despite the fall in the rankings, Jamaica’s corruption perception score remains at 38, the same as in 2012 and 2013.
A country’s score indicates the perceived level of public sector corruption on a scale where a rank of zero is the most highly corrupt and 100 is the least corrupt.
Seven English-speaking Caribbean countries were captured in this year’s report by Transparency International.
The other six states are Barbados, Bahamas, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Dominica, Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana.
All those states were ranked significantly higher than Jamaica, except T-and-T which had an equal rank and Guyana ranked at number 124.
Barbados was the highest ranked of all the English speaking Caribbean countries at 17.
The Bahamas was ranked at 24, St. Vincent and the Grenadines at 29 and Dominica at 39.
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