Haiti is the highest ranked Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country on the 2014 Corruption Perception Index released by the German-based Transparency International (TI).
TI, which promotes itself as the global civil society organisation leading the fight against corruption, said the Index gauges business and political activities in 175 countries, globally.
Eight of the countries named in the report are from the Caribbean with Haiti being ranked 161.
Guyana is the second highest ranked Caribbean country at 124 while Trinidad and Tobago and Jamaica share position number 84th.
Barbados is the least corrupt CARICOM country, according to Transparency International, which placed the island at 17th in the world.
The other Caribbean countries ranked by Transparency International are Bahamas at 24th, St Vincent and the Grenadines 29th, Dominica at 39th and Cuba at position 63.
“Countries at the bottom need to adopt radical anti-corruption measures in favour of their people. Countries at the top of the index should make sure they don’t export corrupt practices to underdeveloped countries,” Transparency International noted.
Source-CMC
