{"id":4531,"date":"2018-02-16T10:00:44","date_gmt":"2018-02-16T15:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/projectcalls.com\/?p=4531"},"modified":"2018-02-16T10:00:44","modified_gmt":"2018-02-16T15:00:44","slug":"government-still-breaking-spending-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/government-still-breaking-spending-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Government still breaking spending rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(CNS): The Office of the Auditor General (OAG) has concerns that government officials are still not following the proper process when it spends public money especially when contracting sole suppliers to do government business. In her latest report reviewing government\u2019s financial reporting, although she acknowledged improvements on preventing fraud, Auditor General Sue Winspear raised the issue of non-compliance when it comes to the laws about spending public cash.\u00a0<span id=\"more-25770\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe found a number of examples of\u00a0 non-compliance with relevant laws and regulations,\u201d she said in the report, \u201cFinancial Reporting of the Cayman Islands Government: General Report 30 June 2015 & 2016\u201d, which was released yesterday.<em>\u00a0<\/em>\u201cWe continue to find instances of procurements not being carried out in accordance with the financial regulations, especially sole source procurements which inevitably were not competitively tendered.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Although Winspear did not name or shame the specific public authorities or list how many had breached tendering rules, she said that officials had to begin managing their government departments in line with these newly adopted procedures and anti-fraud policies.<\/p>\n<p>She said that while sole tendering can sometimes be appropriate, there should be \u201cdocumented justifications and formal approvals for not following a competitive process\u201d, which was usually missing.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/caymannewsservice.com\/2018\/01\/government-still-breaking-spending-rules\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Image:\u00a0\u00a0geralt (<a href=\"http:\/\/pixabay.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pixabay<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNS): The Office of the Auditor General (OAG) has concerns that government officials are still not following the proper process when it spends public money especially when contracting sole suppliers&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":4537,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[112],"tags":[77,146,71,125],"class_list":["post-4531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-newsdevelopments","tag-cayman-islands","tag-procedures","tag-procurement","tag-public-procurement"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Road-sign-fraud-alert-geralt-Pixabay.jpg?fit=1024%2C723&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6u9Qa-1b5","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":20658,"url":"https:\/\/projectcalls.com\/dev\/auditor-general-some-progress-on-recommendations-but-concerns-remain\/","url_meta":{"origin":4531,"position":0},"title":"Auditor general: Some progress on recommendations but concerns remain","author":"Mayra Bonilla Lopez","date":"February 10, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Cayman Islands \u00a0 The Office of the Auditor General has found that government has responded to the majority of recommendations made by Parliament\u2019s Public Accounts Committee on the basis of three audit reports. 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