Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell has strongly rejected claims that his authorities is spending massive sums of public funds on journey. In an announcement, he clarified that, apart from occasions and organizations that Grenada is obligated to attend, the journey bills of presidency ministers are sometimes lined by the inviting entities, not the nationwide Treasury.
Mitchell’s response comes amid rising scrutiny over authorities spending, notably associated to abroad journey. The Prime Minister emphasised that his administration is dedicated to transparency and financial accountability, reiterating that any official journey is both funded by exterior organizations or tied to Grenada’s official obligations. This clarification seeks to dispel issues that public funds are being misused for pointless or extreme journey bills by authorities officers.
“When folks speak about journey, there isn’t a important journey,” Prime Minister Mitchell stated in an interview as he sought to justify that his journey, which on common is one monthly, isn’t a burden to the state.
The official Gazette outlining the variety of instances the appearing prime minister held workplace throughout Mitchell’s absence from the state for the interval of July 1, 2022 to October 31, 2024 had been 36.
Mitchell stated that his administration’s coverage is that ministers won’t journey apart from worldwide and regional our bodies which Grenada is a part of and there may be an obligation to attend the conferences and conferences.
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He defined that the exceptions are establishments such because the United Nations or the Organisation of Japanese Caribbean States (OECS) or the Caribbean Neighborhood (CARICOM).
“Our coverage is, if those that are inviting us to journey or to go to to attend an occasion are usually not ready or prepared to pay the funding for it, we don’t journey,” he stated.
Opposition parliamentarians have filed questions within the Parliament in search of a breakdown of presidency’s journey. The solutions are but to be supplied.
