The Jamaica Accountability Meter Portal,JAMP, is apologising to a number of MPs who may have been adversely impacted by incomplete information in relation to accountability standings on their website.
The affected MPs are Juliet Holness, Floyd Green, Phillip Paulwell, Horace Dalley, Ian Hayles, Juliet Cuthbert-Flynn and Luther Buchanan.
A section of JAMP’s website is dedicated to accountability scores for MPs.
If the overall score of the MP is less than 85- per cent, the MP will not be JAMP-approved.
JAMP approval means the MP has scored highly and satisfied three categories.
These are attendance at constituency meetings, compliance with the Constituency Development Fund’s policy and Declaration of Assets.
JAMP says there’s more interest in the integrity and character of political representatives who are expected to be candidates in the general elections set for September 3.
However, it says the information for all MPs is being updated to accurately reflect their standings.
JAMP says during this process, it ought to have removed the page from public view.
It says it’s now in incorporating the data for the 2019/20 Financial Year.
JAMP says it will have the up-to-date, final assessments, based on the 2019/20 information completed and available to the public by Monday.
Meanwhile, Executive Director of the Jamaica Accountability Meter Portal, Jeanette Calder, is suggesting that Parliament assign more time for sittings and committee meetings.
She says this would allow reports tabled by the oversight committees to be discussed and properly debated.
Ms. Calder says there’s a serious gap between when a matter is deliberated in a committee and when it is debated by Parliament.
The governance watchdog boss says more care must be taken by the Leader of Government Business to ensure the reports make it onto the agenda.
Ms. Calder notes that the majority of the House’s time is taken up by the government’s business, leaving little time to cover other issues.
She’s suggesting that the time for sittings be extended and additional venues established for committee meetings.
Jeanette Calder, Executive Director of Jamaica Accountability Meter Portal.
