KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – The Speaker of the Home, Marisa Dalrymple-Philibert, who can be the Member of Parliament for the constituency of South Trelawny, tendered her resignation on Thursday amid mounting strain about eight prices laid towards her just lately by the Integrity Fee (IC).
“For the reason that Integrity Fee has determined to cost me criminally for an omission, I’ve thought of the harm this has executed to my popularity and have determined to tender my resignation each because the Speaker of the Home of Representatives and Member of Parliament for South Trelawny, with rapid impact,” she stated in a press release on Thursday.
“I want to state categorically that my resolution is fully voluntary and never on the request of anybody. I additionally need to say and emphasize that I stay a loyal and dedicated member and supporter of the Jamaica Labour Celebration, significantly the Andrew Holness Administration. I’ll proceed to render help in no matter means I can, and I’ll at all times help my get together.
“What has occurred to me might have occurred to every other Member of Parliament, public servant, or civil servant. As a lady sustaining a household and as a Member of Parliament, the Speaker of the Home of Representatives, and Managing Companion of a legislation agency, the toll it has taken on me is immense,” she added.
The IC dominated that she be slapped with eight prices about her statutory declarations over seven years.
The fee’s director of investigation, Kevon Stephenson, in a report tabled in Parliament on Tuesday, really helpful that the knowledge be referred to the prime minister “for him to take such disciplinary and administrative actions which each acknowledge the seriousness of Dalrymple-Philibert’s conduct” and to discourage recurrence.
The ruling follows an investigation by the fee a few motorcar that Dalrymple-Philibert had bought via a concession afforded to legislators and which she did not declare in her filings.
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