PM defends financial affairs amid report by Integrity Commission

Prime Minister Andrew Holness this afternoon defended his financial affair amid a report into his income and assets by the Integrity Commission.

The commission has flagged the movement of millions of dollars among companies connected to Holness, which it said has not been fully explained.

One instance involves $72 million transferred from Positive Media Limited to Imperium Limited.

The commission is "urging" Parliament to support its referral of a report on Holness' income and assets to the Financial Investigations Division.

It said "there can be no finality" in the certification of assets for 2019-2022 without further probe.

But, the Prime Minister insisted that he not done anything wrong.

He stressed that he has worked hard from humble beginnings to build his life.

“They don’t know the hours, the nights, the hard work,” Andrew Holness stated as he rejected an integrity Commission report into an investigation of his assets.

Holness noted that more than 3,600 transactions and 28 bank accounts were examined and over 80 witness statements collected with no evidence of illicit enrichment on his part.

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