Close to $1M in items stolen from dance school

Government assets worth $890,449 were stolen from the National School of Dance as a result of the neglect of guards from Strategic Action Security Service.

Alfred King, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Culture Youth and Sport, yesterday headed a group representing the ministry before the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) as the committee scrutinized financial discrepancies flagged by the Auditor General’s Office in its 2011 Report.

The Auditor General’s report noted that “8 items of fixed assets valued at