Minister of Finance Winston Jordan yesterday took issue with criticisms by the Auditor General of government’s spending last year, while stressing that the public debt payments are mostly up to date and defending the administration’s resort to the Contingencies Fund.
Jordan, responding to findings contained in the Auditor General’s 2015 report, which was laid in the National Assembly last week, said Auditor General Deodat Sharma should have consulted the ministry’s specialists before he sought to comment on budgetary matters.
Jordan noted that the Auditor General’s report was in the past edited by the Ministry of Finance before being presented to the public, but now the Auditor General does