THE EDITOR, Madam:The latest release from the Integrity Commission (IC) reflects that corruption in Jamaica is hidden in plain sight, and the casual way public accountability is treated as a political inconvenience.The deeper tragedy is that too many people have become trained to expect them, excuse them, or explain them away, depending on which political colour is implicated. We have allowed corruption to become a partisan argument rather than a national emergency.Every schoolchild is taught to pledge before God and all mankind “the love and loyalty of my heart, the wisdom and courage of my mind, the strength and vigour of my body” in the service of Jamaica. But what does that pledge mean if public life rewards silence over courage, loyalty to party over loyalty to country, and personal gain over national service?This question is: are we raising children to recite values that too many adults in power have no intention of living?If the Jamaican Pledge is to be more than a school-morning ritual, then integrity must be more than a campaign slogan. When the IC raises questions, the first response should be transparency. If there is nothing to hide, then openness should not be feared. If public officials are servants of the people, then the people should not have to beg for clarity about how power, contracts, declarations, assets, and influence are being handled.Jamaica cannot continue to ask ordinary citizens to obey every rule while powerful citizens appear able to negotiate their way around scrutiny. The IC is not perfect. No institution is. But weakening, dismissing, or politicising the very body created to examine integrity in public life sends a dangerous message: that the watchdog is the problem, not the behaviour it is barking at.We must stop pretending that corruption is only the dramatic theft of public funds. Corruption is also the erosion of trust. It is the missing explanation. It is the delayed report. It is the undeclared interest. It is the convenient loophole. It is the silence of those who know better. It is the shrug of a nation that has seen too much and expects too little.Jamaica’s real crisis is corruption fatigue. Too many citizens now believe that nothing will happen, no one will be held accountable, and the powerful will always survive the storm. That belief is poison to democracy.The IC’s report should force us to ask a harder question: do we want clean governance, or do we only want our side to escape embarrassment?