Tag: Public Accounts Committee
Reporting $2.1B liability would create huge deficits
(CNS): Financial Secretary Kenneth Jefferson has said that putting the Cayman Islands Government’s future liability for post-retirement civil service healthcare costs firmly on its books would create massive annual deficits for public finances. But until it fully reports and accounts for these future expenses, the Office of the Auditor General (OAG) will continue to give […]
PPM challenges premier to oust Mac from PAC
(CNS): PPM Leader Roy McTaggart is challenging Premier Wayne Panton to remove beleaguered MP McKeeva Bush from the high-profile Public Accounts Committee following the news that he had been charged with rape. The opposition leader has also asked if Panton will continue to allow Bush to remain on the government benches, given that he now […]
Bush says McTaggart is ‘incapable’ PAC chair
(CNS): McKeeva Bush took aim at Opposition Leader Roy McTaggart Wednesday in response to McTaggart’s criticism of his appointment to the Public Accounts Committee. Bush accused McTaggart of being an “incapable chair” and of leaking documents relating to the PAC when he was on an audit team before being elected to parliament.
PPM accuses Panton of desperate cling to power
(CNS): The opposition has asked why Premier Wayne Panton continues to enable and protect McKeeva Bush. Following Panton’s decision to facilitate the election of the beleaguered MP to the Public Accounts Committee, which is chaired by Opposition Leader Roy McTaggart, the Progressives have questioned the premier’s commitment to women’s rights after appeasing members of his […]
Chief officers failing on transparency, says OAG
(CNS): Civil service bosses are not living up to the current administration’s commitment to transparency and many government departments are failing to make annual reports available to the public. In a recent review, which looks back on its own recommendations and those of the Public Accounts Committee, the Office of the Auditor General (OAG) found […]
CIG gets failing grade on managing public cash
(CNS): It’s now over two years since the Office of the Auditor General, supported by the Public Accounts Committee, made over thirty recommendations to the Cayman Islands Government on how to improve its budgeting process and management of public spending. But only two recommendations have been implemented. The finance ministry has made little progress and […]
OAG’s report on court ‘deficient’, says CJ
(CNS): The country’s top judge has hit back at the Office of the Auditor General following criticisms made in a review report of judicial administration published last week. Chief Justice Anthony Smellie, who retires this month after decades on the bench and managing the local court system, has said the original OAG report published in […]
OAG urges CJ to tackle 3-year delay on court efficiency
(CNS): Judicial Administration has made very little progress over the last three years on recommendations by the Public Accounts Committee to improve the efficiency and value for money of the local court system. Auditor General Sue Winspear has urged the new chief justice to take on the recommendations as soon as possible because only three […]
Gaps remain in management of major projects
(CNS): In the first three months of 2022 the Cayman Islands Government spent more than CI$15.7 million on major capital projects and roads, but few of the recommendations about oversight of public developments made by the Office of the Auditor General more than five years ago have been implemented.
Budget forecasts can improve, Jefferson admits
(CNS): Government’s tendency to underestimate how much revenue it expects to collect is the result of “human nature” and a deliberate desire on the part of successive administrations in recent years to avoid the risk of a deficit and to take a conservative approach to spending ahead of the budget, only to spend the extra […]
Customs boss to face MPs on failures over improvements
(CNS): Customs and Border Control Director Charles Clifford is one of several senior government officials due to face the Public Accounts Committee today (Wednesday) to explain why many of the recommendations made by the Office of the Auditor General have not been implemented. A report published in February highlighted the fact that the CBC has […]
