Jamaica’s Opposition Leader Mark Golding was a trustee or director of at least five non-profits – one in the U.K., where his father was born, and four in Jamaica.
But while the U.K.-based organisation has been in good standing with the charity authority there, all four in Jamaica were outstanding on their filings at the Companies Office of Jamaica (COJ) for multiple years. One was so delinquent - for more than 15 years - the COJ recently removed it from the register of companies.
The level of delinquency of Mr. Golding’s local organisations calls into question whether the attorney and one of the most senior lawmakers in Jamaica is more committed to the laws of the U.K. than those at home. It also begs the question, why are Jamaican authorities so tolerant of low compliance?
