{"id":25606,"date":"2012-09-14T10:05:39","date_gmt":"2012-09-14T14:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=25606"},"modified":"2012-09-14T10:05:39","modified_gmt":"2012-09-14T14:05:39","slug":"minister-refuses-to-disclose-source-of-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/09\/minister-refuses-to-disclose-source-of-funding","title":{"rendered":"Minister Refuses to Disclose Source of Funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_25207\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25207\" style=\"width: 239px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25207\" title=\"dirty-money\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dirty-money.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"239\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dirty-money.jpg 239w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/dirty-money-150x97.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 239px) 100vw, 239px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-25207\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dirty Money<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Grenada&#8217;s Finance Minister Nazim Burke has refused to disclose where government sourced the money to pay the country&#8217;s public servants their August salaries.<\/p>\n<p>State employees, including Prime Minister Tillman Thomas and other government ministers, were caught unawares of the late salary payment.<\/p>\n<p>They only discovered that the money was not in their accounts after checking with their banks at the end of August. A subsequent written statement from the Ministry of Finance promised an &#8220;update&#8221; on the delivery of payment.<\/p>\n<p>Workers received their salaries in early September, with top officials in the Ministry of Finance quoted as saying that the money \u2013 more than EC $20 million \u2013 was secured from the National Insurance Scheme (NIS).<\/p>\n<p>In his first public comment on the late salary payment, Burke \u2013 who is also deputy leader of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) \u2013 refused to confirm or deny that government received a bailout from the NIS.<\/p>\n<p>The Finance Minister, in an interview on Wednesday with veteran broadcaster Lew Smith, said he was not prepared to &#8220;give a running commentary&#8221; on the borrowings or other related financial matters of government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The secrecy and lack of transparency on financial dealings in the government of Grenada shows that The Bahamas is not the only Caribbean country with a lack of government accountability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[100,93,98,40],"class_list":["post-25606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","tag-caribbean-2","tag-corruption","tag-financial","tag-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}