Ministry advanced $156M for Abary sea defence, only $20.5M work done

The Ministry of Public Works made payments totalling $156.5 million for sea defences at Abary/Profitt but when a team from the Auditor General’s office visited the site only $20.6 million worth of work had been done.

This state of affairs prompted the 2010 Auditor General’s Report to recommend that the Head of Budget Agency conduct critical reviews of the ministry’s work supervision processes to ascertain “why