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July 18, 2011 Dear Sir, How do you hide a billion dollars? Well you use fancy rhetoric and a whole lot of polish, your aggressive and argumentative. You use red-herring or diversionary tactics, smoke and mirrors anything to detract the public's atte...

July 20, 2011 Dear Sir, I have heard the saying, “when American sneezes Bermuda catch a cold”. America and so many other countries are experiencing job losses due to greed & the crash on Wall Street. I see the doom and gloom printed daily by OBA. Ca...

The Mincy Report will take centre stage in the final House of Assembly sitting of the summer today. Community Development Minister Michael Weeks will lead a motion urging MPs to take note of Government’s efforts advancing recommendations from the doc...

Disbursement of funds The PAC says some checks and balances did function, noting that the Permanent Secretary for Works and Engineering refused a payment on the project as he had no knowledge of it, having been completely circumvented by the Ministry...

Operating agreement According to the report, BEC benefited financially due to the nature of its operating agreement. The operating contract called for BEC to be reimbursed for certain operating expenses such as rent, depreciation of equipment, proper...

Project definition The report states: “Your committee endeavoured to ascertain from the interviewees how a project cost could balloon from the initial $5.3 million estimate to over $15 million. It was difficult to obtain a definitive answer to this a...

Oversight of –construction The report says prescribed checks and balances were eroded in the oversight of construction of the project. Financial Instructions state that all capital development projects, with the exception of minor works, must be the ...

Bermuda’s Public Accounts Committee investigated all five segments of the Auditor General’s special report on the motor vehicle safety and emissions testing programme. Here are its paraphrased findings, with Ms Cox’s responses: VENDOR SELECTION In th...