How Kareem Musa Spends $180K of His Constituency Development Funds

Minister of Immigration and Caribbean Shores Area Representative Kareem Musa says spending under the Constituency Development Fund (CDF) are used to support both individual residents and community projects.

He explained that funds have gone directly to residents for housing materials, medical costs, and funeral expenses. At the community level, it has financed park refurbishments and street upgrades.

“All five or six parks within our constituency have been refurbished,” Musa said.

In response to questions about transparency, Musa said records of all expenditures have been submitted to central government offices. “Those receipts have all been forwarded to the cabinet secretary’s office, to the Ministry of Finance,” Musa explained, noting that the records are available through official channels.

“It is now up to them based on the FOIA requests to see if they’re going to release all of those records,” he added.

Under the Freedom of Information Act, activist Jerry Enriquez requested the files showing Musa’s allocation of $15,000 monthly in CDF funding, which amounts to $180,000 annually.

The CDF provides monthly allocations to area representatives from both political parties, with amounts varying by constituency size. According to Elections and Boundaries figures, Caribbean Shores had 4,475 registered voters as of December 2025.