Some public officials still to clear advances

May 10, 2010 News

More than a month has passed since President Bharrat Jagdeo issued a directive to the Finance Ministry to ensure that officials clear their conference advances or face the embarrassment of having their names published.
While some officials have complied, a significant number are still to heed the directive but to date their names have not been published.
The same is the case with a directive issued to the Finance Ministry by the Public Accounts Committee to submit the names of the officials who did not clear their outstanding conference advances.
The committee had mandated submission by February 15, last, but was allowed an extension until April 30 and the Finance Ministry has defaulted once again.
President Jagdeo on March 26 last had ordered that delinquent officials who received conference advances and had not cleared them with the Finance Ministry must comply within a month or their names would be published.
Jagdeo had told media operatives that he had instructed Finance Minister, Dr Ashni Singh, to write to the officials who have not cleared their advances.
This was done.
Kaieteur News had reported that some officials were handing over uncleared monies as conference advances, without documentation for how they spent it.
Since then, some officials have started to submit the necessary information.
The figures for 2008 featured 117 advances to the tune of $29M, bringing the total of uncleared advances to some $201M.

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