Pictured above Central Bank, Tom Adams Financial Centre, Barbados .
Transparency International has ranked Barbados 29th out of 180 countries in this year’s report with a score of 64 out of 100 in its 2020 Corruption Perception Index (CPI) report, released Thursday, This makes Barbados the highest rated country in the Caribbean
The Bahamas ranked 30th with a score of 63. St Vincent and the Grenadines scored 59 to rank 40th and St Lucia scored 56 and ranked 45th while Dominica had a score of 55 and placed 48th. Grenada’s score was 53 placing the Spice Isle 52nd, Jamaica whose score was 44 ranked 69th.
The index which ranks 180 countries and territories by their perceived levels of public sector corruption according to experts and businesspeople uses a scale of zero to 100, where zero is highly corrupt and 100 is very clean. Like previous years, more than two-thirds of countries scored below 50 on this year’s CPI, with an average score of just 43. The data shows that despite some progress, most countries still fail to tackle corruption effectively.
Transparency International is a global movement working in over 100 countries to end the injustice of corruption. Transparency International is an independent, non-governmental, not-for-profit organization and works with like-minded partners across the world to end the injustice of corruption, focusing on issues with the greatest impact on people’s lives and hold the powerful to account for the common good. The mission of Transparency International is to stop corruption and promote transparency, accountability, and integrity at all levels and across all sectors of society.
Through its advocacy, campaigning and research, it works to expose the systems and networks that enable corruption to thrive, demanding greater transparency and integrity in all areas of public life.
It strives for a world in which government, politics, business, civil society and the daily lives of people are free of corruption. This vision of a corruption-free world is not an end in itself. It is the fight for social and economic justice, human rights, peace and security.
Holding the powerful and corrupt to account, by exposing the systems and networks that enable corruption and advocating for policies and laws to change the system, and building coalitions to drive national, regional and global change is the challenge of Transparency International
(Source Transparency International https://www.transparency.org/en/)
