George Town Dump, Grand Cayman
(CNS): Government has finally released a series of internal audit reports documenting abuse and mismanagement of overtime payments at the Department of Environmental Health, which led to an eye-watering 2016/17 budget overspend of 796% — more than CI$2.24 million. The audit, which started in November 2017, was conducted by Andy Bonner, the director of the Cayman Islands Government’s Internal Audit Service and covered three phases, with the final damning report being completed last month.
The review of what went wrong at the dump found “multiple failures and missed opportunities to report the issue across numerous roles and responsibilities within both the Department and the Ministry”.
The audit found a catalog of management failings and made numerous recommendations to address the issue, though all eleven in the final report have been redacted and hidden from public view. In the conclusion of phase 3 of his audit, Bonner described what amounted to an alleged fraud of public cash.
“Our review identified multiple employees from the Department of Environmental Health with implausible 2016/17 overtime records,…
