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On Friday at the House of Representative, a new report from he Auditor General will be tabled.  It deals with irregularities found at the Ministry of Works from 2012 to 2013, and other ministries including the Ministry of Education.  And the Minister of Education says he isn’t happy with what he saw in there:…

Hon. Patrick Faber - Minister of Education
"Just preliminarily I know that their might be other questions down the road but just preliminarily I am disappointed in the fact that the Auditor General and her team who ever the team was went into the ministry to do an audit on the tertiary unit of the ministry that deals with the scholarships and when they found certain things they said Mr. CEO could you answer to these things. Now the way I understand it and I may be completely wrong but I don't think so that once you get in there and you are doing an audit and you find certain things, you give the entity an opportunity to respond, it may be misinterpretation, it may be a misunderstanding and once that response is given you factor that into whatever report  you will put out. Well, from what I've seen, dealing with the portion of the ministry of education the questions that they raised even though the ministry provided a response which is tacked on as a kind of annexed in the report; just this is the ministry's response nobody bothered to go and address those concerns to say that these concerns are valid or not valid in the report itself. This is for me very distressing because this report calls people's name, they put people in there who are good people who are productive people and you drag people through the mud suggesting that there could be some kind of impropriety when that is not the case."

Faber says he had seen the audit report on the Education Ministry before, but just saw the rest of the adult yesterday.