Region Four cited over questionable payments to private security firms

The customary anomalies in the management of public funds repeatedly pointed out in successive reports of the Auditor General on the Public Accounts of Guyana surfaced again in the recently released 2011 Report, with seeming irregularities in financial transactions involving public sector administrators and private enterprises undertaking contracts paid for by public funds.

This year’s Report of the Auditor General again makes mention of serious irregularities in the administration of payments by the Region Four Regional Administration to private security establishments providing services to premises administered by the region.

According to the Auditor General’s Report for last year the region’s payment regime to private security services was replete with irregularities including what it says were