Integrity Commission expects increase in assets declarations -- official
With the public service work stoppage now over, the Integrity Commission expects that the response to its requests for declaration of assets by persons who come within the ambit of the Integrity Commission Act will increase. The Integrity Commission Act came into force in September 1997 and the official said that the requests cover the years 1997 and 1998. The returns are required to be filed with the commission by June 30, every year. The official also told Stabroek News that the forms which are to be filled by officers covered by the Act are very simple and that he did not envisage any great difficulty in completing them. Among the officers who are covered by the Act are the president and the ministers of government, the chancellor and members of the judiciary, the speaker, deputy speaker and clerk of the national assembly, permanent secretaries and heads of government departments and state corporations, the heads of the disciplined services, the vice chancellor of the University of Guyana, members of the public and police service commissions, the ombudsman, the members of the Judicial Service Commission, members of the Integrity Commission, the heads of Guyana overseas diplomatic missions and the registrars of the Supreme Court and Deeds registries. 
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