Linda Adams, ne Finch was born to Enid and Arthur Finch on August 28th , 1952 in the rural village of Saddlers. She attended a small pre-school in the village and later attended the Government All-Age school (Bethel School), in the nearby village of Parsons.  From these early years, she showed a passion for reading and learning in general. Ms. Adams later attended the St. Joseph’s Roman School and later the    St. Theresa’s Convent School, from which she graduated in 1969.  By that September, she began her career as a teacher at the Saddlers All-Age School. She attended the St. Kitts-Nevis Teachers’ College in 1980 – 1981; the Mico Teachers’…

Ms. S. Lisa Hazel-Claxton was appointed to the Integrity Commission by Her Excellency, Dame Marcella Althea Liburd, GCMG, JP, Governor General effective 12th March 2025.  She was called to the Bar in St. Kitts & Nevis in July 2009 and is the senior partner and co-founder of HazelAlleyne Law Office in Basseterre, St. Kitts. Lisa holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Accounting from the University of the Virgin Islands, St. Thomas campus, and a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Wolverhampton in the United Kingdom. She attended the Inns of Court School of Law (now The City Law School) and is a member of the Inner Temple…

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…