Permanent Secretary of the Department of Public Service Reginald Brotherson recently revealed that government has transitioned 4,000 former contract workers to the fixed establishment and the Auditor General’s (AG’s) 2016 Report has recorded unspent balances of $276.8 million due to the transfers.
The $276 million is a large part of the $410.6 million in unspent balances realised from Employment Cost, according to the report.
The AG’s report, laid in Parliament last Thursday, noted that Central Government’s current expenditure was under the 2016 budgetary allocation by $2.868 billion.
AG Deodat Sharma attributed this outturn to expenditure being significantly under the budgeted allocation by various Ministries, while the Ministry of Finance recorded the outturn at $2.9 billion.
