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Last Updated: Jun 26, 2017 - 9:47:45 AM |
Statement from the Office of the Prime Minister in Response to the Leader of the Opposition on Hurricane Contracts:
Former Minister Davis is well aware that the job of technical officers is to provide technical advice and it is the responsibility of the government to either accept or reject that advice .Once they act on the advice they must take full responsibility for the outcome and must never ever lay blame for their decision on the technical officers who gave the advice. That is how our system works.
A contract for $1,057,560 was signed with Ash Enterprises for cleaning services and cheques were issued at the direction of the Cabinet of The Bahamas.
It is troubling that in a no bid arrangement, 7 million was issued via 46 payments in response to bills submitted by Mr.Ash. Sometimes multiple submissions were made in one day totalling nearly $1 million. Some of these were made through the Ministry of Works and others, the National Recovery and Reconstruction Unit.
All of this while some small vendors round it extremely difficult, if not impossible to receive payment for much smaller amounts, One vendor has been attempting to collect a $1,500 cheque since last November to no avail.
It is time for Mr. Davis and his fellow Cabinet members to simply accept that he and hos government mismanaged the affairs of the country, has been caught out and seek to redeem themselves in the eyes of the Bahamian people.
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