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Monday, December 10, 2007
Significant amendments to Jamaica's Contractor General Act will be brought to Parliament to criminalize breaches of the contract award procedures, Prime Minister Bruce Golding has reiterated. Golding, who was speaking at a press freedom and corruption seminar at the University of the West Indies, said, "The most amazing thing is that Jamaica has a procurement handbook setting out copious procedures for the award of contracts, but those guidelines do not have the force of law. What is worse he said, is that if you breach those guidelines, there is no sanction in the law. The Prime Minister said under the intended new provision, any contract that is awarded without having gone through the required procedures, will be made void.
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