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Perennial concerns raised in 2022 Auditor General Report

Ryan Straughn
Ryan Straughn, Minister in ministry of finance
Adrian Forde
Adrian Forde, Minister of the Environment

The annual spectacle of the 2022 Auditor General Report being laid in parliament has generated the usual palaver. This time around the big ticket issues raised feature the National Conservation Commission (NCC) and Wyndham Sam Lord’s Castle.

So far Minister Adrian Forde who is responsible for the NCC has quickly refuted concerns about fraud, however, he admitted the NCC breached government’s procurement policy (see page 67). Minister Ryan Straughn has refuted Auditor General Leigh Trotman’s finding of being unable to account for 165 million in spend incurred by the Sam Lord’s construction. Straughn explained that the Mia Mottley government took the decision on assuming office to take the project off budget to create fiscal space (see page 32). By the way, are we happy with Struaghn’s explanation to what happened with Four Seasons/Clearwater Bay transaction?

… even if the
information was made available, the personnel would not have been
there to complete them…

2022 Auditor General Report

The 2022 Auditor General Report is 143 pages and although some matters of concern raised may be legitimately refuted by government, it does not change the perennial concern raised by the Mr. Trotman. Our government is not doing an efficient job of managing public finances. Further, the Auditor General’s office is under resourced to be able to ensure adherence to government’s financial rules.

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62 responses to “2022 Auditor General released”

  1. John Avatar
    John

    NorthernObserver on September 29, 2023 at 11:49 AM said:
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    What confuses me, is how many invoices, on a total of $432,000 had to be duplicated to arrive at $1.5M?

    But as admitted earlier, the report is the best sleeping pill I have ever found.

    ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    1.5 million is not divisible by 432,000!!

    sorry!!!

  2. NorthernObserver Avatar
    NorthernObserver

    If doesn’t have to be.
    Many invoices totalled $432k. It some were duplicated twice, and others several times, any total can be arrived at.

  3. David Avatar
    David

    @NO

    He was on VOB couple years ago with Ellis.

  4. Artax Avatar
    Artax

    Okay. I agree with you as it relates to the 2007 Act. That’s probably the reason why a revised Public Finance Management Act 2019 – 1 was passed in Parliament on January 15, 2019, which is the Act I’m referring.

  5. Hants Avatar
    Hants

    MAM to UN 2026 ?

  6. Sargeant Avatar
    Sargeant

    “This entity was PAID OVER $300,000 between January and December 2022 for this service.
    +++++++++++

    My head aint too good and maybe I missed something, but that figure leaves a lot out what does “over $300,00” mean? Is it $432,000 or is it $350,000 or is it $1,000.000.

    Maybe there is a simple explanation, but did I miss anything?

  7. Artax Avatar
    Artax

    And, I agree with you wholeheartedly, especially as it relates to this particular NCC issue.

  8. John Avatar
    John

    There was a time when you passed a whole line of ladies cleaning the side of the road … NCC at work.

    I always wondered how people could belittle women working in the canefields and still tolerate all these ladies standing up beside the road with their hoes.

    So I started to think that the problem people had with agricultural work was more imagined than real.

    I came up with this idea.

    Private enterprise needs to hire all these ladies who lost out with the NCC and offer their services to plantations for a fee.

    There will be plenty work to go around and the workers on the island would be provided with alot of employment. IT would not be for everyone but if the NCC worked at one time, this should too.

    There could be a labour depot in each parish with work assignments on plantations throughout the parish.

  9. Artax Avatar
    Artax

    Bushie, perhaps you should ‘find out’ the operational similarities and differences between public and private sector boards BEFORE making any comparisons. One thing we know for sure is that SOEs are established to simply circumvent the bureaucracy associated with ‘central government.’

  10. NorthernObserver Avatar
    NorthernObserver

    What you missed was…the books of the NCC haven’t been audited in over 10 years. The NCC also received $20M in additional funding, and given the former, the AudGen was concerned about how those monies were spent. The NCC has no method of seeking nor reviewing competitive bids, nor tracking projects to ensure if invoices amounts actually reflect works done.
    The question is why was the Chair so upset? Normally the politically appointed Chair is “aware” of the similarly anointed contractors who get untendered contracts. Why seek to out him? Why raise the flag?

  11. David Avatar
    David

    Something sure smells rotten in Denmark.

  12. TLSN Avatar
    TLSN

    @John,

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/03/turks-and-caicos-corruption-trial-reaches-mixed-verdicts-for-four-men

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