On the 12th June 2019, His Excellency the Governor-General, Sir S.W. Tapley Seaton, GCMG, CVO, QC, JP, LLD appointed Justice Pearletta Emelda Lanns, Retired Master of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court and Retired High Court Judge, as Chairperson of the Integrity Commission. Justice Lanns has had a lengthy career as a public servant in St. Kitts and Nevis and other OECS territories. She was first a Library Assistant at the Nevis Public Library. She was then appointed Clerk at the St. Kitts Public Library, and after obtaining her Bachelor’s Degree in Library Studies in 1984, she was appointed Assistant Librarian at the Basseterre Public Library. After reading Law, in 1995, she was…

Ms Virginia Browne is an experienced employee in the field of Information Management and Documentation. She comes to the Integrity Commission with over three decades of exceptional knowledge and pioneering work in the public and private sectors. As an educator, Ms. Browne served as a teacher at all three levels – primary, secondary and tertiary – of the education system.  Her education, knowledge and skills were further enhanced by her successful attainment of a Trained Teacher certificate from the University of the West Indies (UWI) (1979). In several of the Institutions where Ms. Browne has served, she has been credited with   development of the aspect of work to which she is assigned.…

In February 2020, Albert Edwards was contracted as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Integrity Commission for a period of three years. Mr Edwards has given some forty-six (46) years of diverse service in the Public Sector, with eighteen (18) of those years as the Director of Audit in St. Kitts and Nevis; and four (4) years as the Chief Auditor in the Turks and Caicos Islands.  His years in the service include working at the General Post Office, Supply Office, Electricity Department, ZIZ Radio and Television and the Ministry of Communications, Works and Public Utilities in earlier years. In addition to holding a Master’s in Business Administration with a…

Mr Dennis ‘Freddie’ Knight was appointed to the Integrity Commission by His Excellency the Governor-General, Sir S. W. Tapley Seaton, GCMG, CVO, QC, JP, LLD as of 1st September 2018.  As a Mediator in the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court and a Business Consultant specialising in human resource management, business structuring, and management training, Mr Knight is an exceptional asset to the Commission. In 1979, Mr Knight graduated from the St. Kitts Teachers’ College as a certified trained teacher.  He went on to obtain a Bachelors in Social Sciences (Psychology) from the College of the Virgin Islands in 1985.  While in the Virgin Islands (St. Thomas), he worked as a Counsellor in a Mental Health Clinic.  He later…

Mrs Carol I. Boddie was appointed to the Integrity Commission by His Excellency the Governor-General, Sir S.W. Tapley Seaton, GCMG, CVO, QC, JP, LLD on 27th August 2018. Her position became effective on 1st September of the same year. Mrs Boddie is no stranger to the public service or the professional business world. In 1985, she graduated from the St. Kitts Teachers’ Training College as a certified trained teacher with the best results in the OECS and went on to become a schoolteacher in St. Kitts and later, in the British Virgin Islands (BVI). While in the BVI, she pursued further studies at the University of the Virgin Islands and in…