DR2028 analytical summary. This is a research brief prepared by the DR2028 movement on real Jamaican legislation. It is not an official publication.
One body instead of three
Jamaica's Integrity Commission Act, 2017 merged three legacy anti-corruption bodies — the Office of the Contractor General, the Commission for the Prevention of Corruption, and the parliamentary Integrity Commission — into a single Integrity Commission, operational from February 2018.
What the Act mandates (Section 3)
- Promote propriety and integrity among persons exercising public functions.
- Strengthen prevention, detection, investigation, and prosecution of corruption.
- Ensure government contracts are awarded, varied, renewed, or terminated impartially, on merit, and in a financially prudent manner.
- Build public confidence that corruption will be investigated transparently and fairly.
The Commission runs information-and-complaints, investigation, and corruption-prosecution divisions, and monitors the award and discharge of government contracts and prescribed licences.
DR2028 relevance
This is the Caribbean precedent for DR2028's own consolidation logic. The Dominican Republic today splits anti-corruption functions across the PEPCA, the ethics directorate, the Comptroller-General, and the Chamber of Accounts — the same fragmentation Jamaica eliminated in 2017. Our government-restructuring and anti-corruption decrees follow the Jamaican model: fewer bodies, clearer mandates, contract oversight in one place. A neighboring island, a shared legal neighborhood, a working example.