12. Is there a ban on donations from corporations with partial government ownership to candidates?
Barbados
P 12, 'Campaign financing is largely unregulated and amounts and sources are generally shrouded in secrecy.' (Source: Ryan, Selwyn, Disclosure and Enforcement of Political Party and Campaign Financing in CARICOM States in Griner, Steven & Zovatto, Daniel (ed. by) (2005), From Grassroots to the Airwaves: Paying for Political Parties and Campaigns in The Caribbean, The Organization of American States (OAS) and International IDEA, Washington D.C)
Art 52.3.d, '...moneys, securities and equivalent of money received by the election agent from the candidate or any other person for the purposes of election expensesincurred or to be incurred, with a statement of the name of every person from whom they are received.' [The law contains no limit on who these 'other person[s]' can be] (Source: Representation of the People Act, No 12 of 1991)
