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Some things in PAC report make ‘no sense’ – Hon. Mark H. Vanterpool
At the time the Friday June 13, 2014 sitting of the House of Assembly had taken a short recess following word that there will be no debating of the PAC extensive report on the Cruise Pier Development Project that day.
The report was laid on the table by Chairman of the PAC Honourable Ralph T. O’Neal OBE and an attempted motion to have the document debated was moved by First District Representative Honourable Andrew A. Fahie.
While declaring to this news site that there were things in the document that did not ‘make sense’ Minister Vanterpool said he had not read the report fully. “I haven’t done it in any depth but I am going to do so because we are definitely going to debate it not too long from now,” he said.
Minister Vanterpool told this news site that the government does not operate based on a PAC report. “They operate based on government’s Cabinet’s decision that is going forward with a project not based on a PAC report,” he said adding that there is nothing in the report that says that somebody committing any illegal act/s.
“There is [nothing] in the PAC report that says that somebody is stealing or somebody is robbing or something is wrong with the project in that sense and if they have that kind of information they should bring it forward so it can be dealt with” he added.
“I believe that the Public Accounts Committee is doing its job but there is nothing that I see in there, the new report that has anything, I am amazed I am still trying to find out what’s the real issue,” said Minister Vanterpool .
He said there were ‘certain things’ that were pointed out by First District Representative Honourable Andrew A. Fahie’s ‘attempted motion’, “…that the Port was not allowed to do its job. It is nowhere in any country that a Port Development is going to happen without the government of the day directing it. The government of the day is who decided that the Port is going to be developed. It’s a policy, it was in their manifesto,” he said.
He said that while the bank will be funding a portion of the monies for the Port Development project the government is yet to discuss where the balance of funds will be coming from.
“The Port Authority is directing it and they have all rights to raise the monies through the bank, which the government, because the government is supporting the policy and in fact directing the policy…. In fact we deliberately directed the policy,” stressed Minister Vanterpool.
He further went on to say, “I don’t know what is the big issue and the previous government did the same thing so it’s amazing that they think that is something we are usurping the Port’s authority, that is not so at all.”
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22 Responses to “Some things in PAC report make ‘no sense’ – Hon. Mark H. Vanterpool”
The whole gang needs l..king up including the ... ....
not be debated on the day it was presented, according to opposition.
Three weeks later, a document was tabled by the opposition and a motion
to debate by the opposition, but failed missarably attempt.
The differenceis is what again? or some memories are just too short?
very good try M..k but its not selling I also heard you on Z..I with the same hog wash...we not buying it deman we know better
Why would any of it make sense to M..k?
how can the port authority be running the project when the board was bypassed? If a certain amount of money was needed, why was more awarded? And why are we moving forward when Government doesn't know where the rest of the money is coming from when we are in debt for $125mil? M..k has a self-serving blind spot, and lack of the bigger picture because he is so determined to have his name on a huge character-changing project.
And why doesn't the auditor general and PAC reports get any respect from this team of players? IT is all about him. 4 hrs debating? there needs to be a time limit.
You know more than the qualified people who wrote the report after research? nonsense. Be respectful and answer the questions.
Taking Minister Vanterpool at his word where he is saying that he does not understand what all the fuss is about, allow me to illustrate with two examples.
Recently the Premier of Bermuda voluntarily stepped down not because he believed he did something wrong but because of THE APPEARANCE OF WRONGDOING. He did not take the attitude that " I DID NOTHING WRONG, SO I AM NOT STEPPING DOWN !" He did the HONOURABLE THING and this is an example of why we call our elected officials HONOURABLE.
As another example, the Premier of the Cayman Islands, McKeeva Bush was arrested and eventually booted out of office because of alleged improprieties to do with the use of a government assigned credit card and something to do with proper procedures not being followed with the import of explosives. MINOR MATTERS when compared to this issue that we are presently dealing with where overnight APPARENTLY WITHOUT ANY REAL SORT OF PROCESS, ( the PAC Report is alleging that no resolution was passed as us required by the law ) a project can go from $12 MILLION to $75+ MILLION.
Yet this Minister and the entire NDP Government is steadfast in their view that THEY DO NOT SEE WHAT THE FUSS IS ABOUT ! IT IS ABOUT STANDARDS OF GOVERNANCE, IT IS ABOUT ACCOUNTABILITY IN PUBLIC OFFICE, IT IS ABOUT POTENTIAL CONFLICT OF INTEREST, IT MAY EVEN BE, AS THE MINISTER IS DEFIANT THAT IT IS NOT, ABOUT ROBBING AND STEALING.
The point is, as we all know and as the Minister and this government fully well know, in public life, what appears to be is WHAT REALLY MATTERS.
PROGRESSIVE PEOPLE, LET US TAKE A STAND AND DEFEND THE INTEGRITY OF THIS COUNTRY ! NO VOTES FOR ANY POLITICAL CANDIDATE WHO DO NOT SEE WHAT THE FUSS IS ABOUT OR WHO REMAINS SILENT ON THIS MATTER !
POWER TO THE PEOPLE !!!!!!!!!!!
M..k is so full of sh$$t. You can see the demon and deceit in his face. He can't even hold his head up when he is spewing his l..s to cover his tracks. All the nonsense he is talking is just a distraction to confuse the people. Well M..k,, it is not going to work. You have reached the end of your rope. You are done. The AG office probably won't pro..cute you and your co-consp...tors and lock your c...upt a..es up, but this is the end time for you. We the people are not going to keep you in a position where you can destroy our beautiful island. You are outta there.