Dionne Rose, Staff Reporter
Prime Minister P.J. Patterson (seated right) and Bruce Golding, Leader of the Opposition, sign the revised Agreement and Declaration on Political Conduct in the House of Representatives yesterday. Looking on are other Members of Parliament. The revised code mandates all MPs to dissociate themselves from criminals. - RICARDO MAKYN/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
MEMBERS OF Parliament from both sides of the political divide yesterday signed the long-awaited, but revised Political Code of Conduct, in response to agitation from private sector leaders.
The signing, which took place in the House of Representatives, came three months after the Private Sector Organisation of Jamaica called on politicians to cut links with unscrupulous persons.
The demand was one of several contained in the Emancipation Park Declaration, issued by private sector leaders during an anti-crime initiative that locked down commercial operations in towns islandwide for half day on May 25. The protest culminated in a rally in Emancipation Park, New Kingston.
