On 28 December 2015, we carried an article on the above subject but we were unable to complete it because of space constraints. In that article we referred to Accountability Watch’s four previous articles carried at the beginning of 2015 entitled “2014 an annus horribilis for governance, 
transparency and accountability”. In these articles, we had discussed a number of topics including: (a) the prorogation of Parliament; (b) delay in holding Local Government elections; (c) the incurrence of excess expenditure totalling $4.544 billion; (d) non-establishment of the Public Procurement Commission; (e) delay in laying the Auditor General’s 2013 report in the Assembly; (f) the work of the PAC; (g) need for revision of the accountability cycle; (h) amendments to the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) Act; and (i) corruption and the Integrity Commission.
A year later, we began to revisit these issues and assess the extent to which progress has been made. So far, we discussed the first five topics. Today, we continue our discussion of the