Agri Ministry flayed over payments to former staff, fuel purchases

Bibi Shadick

The Ministry of Agriculture has been flayed by the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) for failing to ensure that it collected money from ex-employees who would have been overpaid and for being sloppy in its payment arrangement with the Guyana Oil Company (GuyOil) for the purchase of fuel.

Accounting Officer at the Ministry of Agriculture George Jervis yesterday appeared before the PAC, which was concerned about the answers he gave.

Jervis, who said he was not the accounting officer in 2010,