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The joint select committee (JSC) of Parliament examining the revised National Identification and Registration (NIDS) Bill has agreed on the eight members of the Electoral Commission of Jamaica (ECJ) forming the oversight National Databases Inspectorate (NDI) for the proposed national identification system.
The NDI will be a body corporate which will, among other things, monitor compliance with the Act as well as the performance of the proposed National Identification and Registration Authority (NIRA).
It will conduct periodic inspections of its operations and give the board directions and advice “as may be appropriate to ensure identity information collected by the authority and stored in the national identification database is subject to the highest practicable levels of security and confidentiality”.
The current ECJ comprises three non-partisan selected members – ECJ Chairman Earl Jarrett, who is also deputy chairman and chief executive officer of Jamaica National Group; retired Court of Appeal judge, Justice Karl Harrison, who resigned from the Integrity Commission in 2019; and former Chief Justice Zaila McCalla.
There are four nominated members in: attorney-at-law, Senator Thomas Tavares Finson who is also president of the Senate and Dr Aundre Franklin, both from the governing Jamaica Labour Party (JLP); former Senator Wensworth Skeffery; and former MP and current embattled general secretary of the People’s National Party (PNP), Dr Dayton Campbell.
The eighth member of the team is Director of Elections Glasspole Brown, who will be in charge of the day-to-day activities of the inspectorate, if the National Identification and Registration Act, which is being reviewed by the JSC, is approved and implemented by Parliament.
Minister of Justice Delroy Chuck, who chairs the JSC, informed Thursday’s meeting of the committee at Gordon House that, following a meeting between the NIDS team and ECJ representatives on Wednesday, it was agreed that all eight ECJ commissioners be drafted to form the inspectorate, including the director of elections.
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