PAC raps Audit Office over report on Region Two write-offs

Volda Lawrence

It was the Auditor General’s Office that ended up under the microscope at yesterday’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) hearing, over its reporting on write-offs of amounts totalling over $5 million being sought by the Region Two administration since 2010.

The 2010 Auditor General’s Report stated that approval had still not been obtained for the write off of “gasoline valued at $1.640M, 37,806 litres of dieseline and shortage of cash amounting to $3.692M at the Anna Regina Multilateral School.”

The region was also reported as saying that the matter of the fuel was still engaging the attention of the Finance Secretary (FS) Neermal Rekha, while the shortage of cash