Region 9 administration officials were yesterday blasted by members of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) over findings in the Auditor General’s 2010 and 2011 reports that they had made overpayments to the sum of approximately of $18.5 million over several years.
As the committee convened to consider discrepancies cited in the Auditor General’s 2010 and 2011 reports on the region, Claire Singh, the Region Nine Regional Executive Officer (REO), and two former REOs, including Ronald Harsawack, led the team which attempted to address the committee’s concerns in relation to the discrepancies.
In the 2010 report on the region, the Auditor General stated that a total of $364,000 had been paid to contractors in 2007 for the rehabilitation of the Amerindian Hostel in Lethem, while $1,028,000 had been paid out in 2009 for a series of works, including the
