Former Prime Minister Bruce Golding has suggested that lawmakers revisit the proposed impeachment law he attempted to introduce over 15 years ago, arguing that “the existing accountability framework needs to be strengthened”.

He made the suggestion during an interview on New York City-based radio station Irie Jam with host Irwin Clare on Wednesday. It came days after his comments that Jamaican public officials do not “instinctively” embrace oversight and monitoring stirred wide public debate.

In 2011, while Golding was head of Government, he tabled an impeachment bill in the House of Representatives that sought to establish a constitutional procedure to discipline, censure, or expel public officials, including lawmakers, who violated behavioural standards or committed serious wrongdoing.