Laptop divides city, Deputy Mayor says treasurer taking responsibility

Patricia Chase-Green

A row over a laptop from a non-existent company has pitted Mayor Hamilton Green  and the IT department against Deputy Mayor Patricia Chase-Green and councillor Junior Garret and the treasurer is reportedly to take responsibility for the matter.

Chase-Green said yesterday that there are serious administrative flaws in the city’s financial systems, while Councillor and acting Chairman of the Financial Committee Garret said that he was only doing his job when he signed the voucher for the purchase of a laptop computer.

Garret said that “as chairman acting of the Finance Committee my sole purpose is to sign vouchers that are