Claim that no taxpayer $$ used on Marriott bizarre -Goolsarran

Statements by director of the National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL), Winston Brassington that no taxpayers’ funds were used to finance the Marriott Hotel are “bizarre” former Auditor-General Anand Goolsarran has said.

“All State resources, including revenues, assets and liabilities, belong to the citizens of this country in the same way that the resources of a company are those of its shareholders,” Goolsarran wrote in his ‘Accountability Watch’ column which appears today.

He noted that the Consolidated Fund is the taxpayers’ fund, regulated by certain constitutional and legislative procedures with the full involvement of the duly elected representatives of the people. “It is therefore bizarre to think that only revenues derived from taxation are taxpayers’ funds. Every citizen is a