WASHINGTON D.C. — Mrs. Kenrah Newry, Assistant Director of Legal Affairs in the Office of the Attorney-General and Ministry of Legal Affairs, paid a courtesy call on His Excellency Sidney Collie, Bahamas Ambassador to the United States and Permanent Representative to the Organization of American States (OAS), on Wednesday, September 12, 2018, at The Bahamas Embassy, 2220 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W.
Mrs. Newry is currently attending the Thirty-First Meeting of the Committee of Experts of the MESICIC. According to the OAS website, “the Follow-Up Mechanism for the Implementation of the Inter-American Convention against Corruption (MESICIC) is the Anticorruption Mechanism of the OAS.”
“It brings together 33 of the 34 Member States to review their legal frameworks and institutions in the light of the Inter-American Convention against Corruption,” the website notes.
The Inter-American Convention against Corruption (IACC) “is a treaty by which the 34 OAS Member States have undertaken to work together to fight corruption and take specific decisions to that end.,” according to the website. “Adopting a comprehensive approach, the Convention envisages measures for the prevention, detection, investigation, and punishment of acts of corruption as well as for the recovery of corruption proceeds.”
The Committee of Experts is the “political body that issues guidelines on the operation of the MESICIC and for strengthening hemispheric cooperation against corruption in the framework of OAS Convention in that regard,” the website States.
