Today a cashier from the Road Traffic Department in Nassau was charged with stealing 36,000.00 from Road Traffic over a 3 month period. She was charged with more than 40 counts of stealing.

Investigators from the Audit Dept said that she stole funds everyday.

I don't know if this was an error in the reporting or if this is true, but the news said she was transferred from Road Traffic to Public Works.

If she did it, I wonder what she did with that amount of money??

Today a cashier from the Road Traffic Department in Nassau was charged with stealing 36,000.00 from Road Traffic over a 3 month period. She was charged with more than 40 counts of stealing.
Investigators from the Audit Dept said that she stole funds everyday.
I don't know if this was an error in the reporting or if this is true, but the news said she was transferred from Road Traffic to Public Works.
If she did it, I wonder what she did with that amount of money??
To hell with that! How they figure they could just transfer a thief to some other department?! LOL. Boy, I tell ya...

To hell with that! How they figure they could just transfer a thief to some other department?! LOL. Boy, I tell ya...

You ever see such mess. I work in the financial institution and employees involve in theft are terminated immediately. This heifer then steal from "us" and they ga turn round and put her in another department and probably still paying her a salary. Well country....she has already proven that she is not an asset to the company so just get rid of her:realmad:

Why were there not proper controls in place.

Additionally aren't these departments computerized...why isn't the computers being used. If my disk is entered and my inspection tag entered when I go to cashier that should be in the system and then no chance of stealing...although one job i was on one of the ladies I supervised figured out how to void the transactions then take the money. It didn't come to light fully until she had an error b/c she voided a check payment!

Road traffic need to stop this manual work.

Additionally the woman should be fired...she probably went out and bought Gucci, Coach etc and don't know where $1 of the money is right now!

Why were there not proper controls in place.
Additionally aren't these departments computerized...why isn't the computers being used. If my disk is entered and my inspection tag entered when I go to cashier that should be in the system and then no chance of stealing...although one job i was on one of the ladies I supervised figured out how to void the transactions then take the money. It didn't come to light fully ubtil she had an error b/c she voided a check payment!
Road traffic need to stop this manual work.
Additionally the woman should be fired...she probably went out and bought Gucci, Coach etc and don't know where $1 of the money is right now!
if i was prime minster right now she would been fired asap. i don't pace with thefts. and thats my money she taken and still paying her. some one needs to kick her up her butt.

and why was she transfered to the ministry of works again???
i'd hate to think she's working around money again..hope she only making coffee and sweeping until they decide to FIRE HER!!

There is theft in Road Traffic- as we see.

There is theft in BTC- we have seen.

There is theft in BEC- food vouchers for sure and with the other utility corporations that issue them. This has been seen. Cashier theft would be seen, probably, if we look.

There is HUGE theft in Customs- missing revenue and shifting tariff rates. They are being investigated now and, we all know of dodgy tariff rates. For example, PCs are duty free, but, people have been paying tariffs none the less.

There is theft in Social Services- dead people collecting food stamps and benefits.

Theft in NIB- same thing as Social Services and with the same "checks and balances" problems that all other government corporations face

There is blatant theft and corruption in many parts of the Govt. services, because, there has been little or no incentive, to provide checks and balances to how we allocate and spend money in order to tamp this down. Not that some people have to. But, simply because they can. Aside from the Mins. of Education and Culture (non revenue collecting and non cash awarding agencies), every single government entity that has money coming in and out, is suspect to theft because we have no form of "true control" on such flows.

Education has it's own form of corruption- but certainly, theft does not equate in this equation. Housing comes in mid-way as a form of "contractor" theft and inflated building prices as well as payments to accounts, to the Min of Housing; this REALLY needs to be audited. Not that anyone has been caught or that any one issue can be pin-pointed. However, alls I ask is that we look and sew it up. At least for making it more efficient and putting in place a tighter operations model, so that waste can be managed more properly.

We have a serious operations problem in the Bahamas Govt. services. Very few administrations have even begun to look at how to provide efficient checks and balances, in a concerted and meaningful manner.

Now, there has been talk of "legislation" in regards to financial spending in the government services, just recently in the Guardian and the PM can be quoted on a few issues. What these legislations will work towards providing and work towards affecting exactly what, is not yet understood by me. But, I will reflect on these "legislative proposals" and give my regards in short notice. However, if they do not have in place conservation and operational policies, they are wasting their time.

The government should cut the cash payments method, especially at Customs and other places that handle large amount s of cash. They cannot be so stupid for so long, or can they?

That seems to be the policy regarding theft by employees in the Public Service, simply transfer them instead of firing them. I have heard of other such cases in the Public Service. Its a crying shame, and further mars the Public Service in this country as one big windbag of mediocrity and slackness. Its a crying shame how that situation was allegedly handled.

The government should cut the cash payments method, especially at Customs and other places that handle large amount s of cash. They cannot be so stupid for so long, or can they?
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Explain!

Today a cashier from the Road Traffic Department in Nassau was charged with stealing 36,000.00 from Road Traffic over a 3 month period. She was charged with more than 40 counts of stealing.
Investigators from the Audit Dept said that she stole funds everyday.
I don't know if this was an error in the reporting or if this is true, but the news said she was transferred from Road Traffic to Public Works.
If she did it, I wonder what she did with that amount of money??

Transfered her to public works ???/:realmad::realmad:
am I reading that right?

The government should cut the cash payments method, especially at Customs and other places that handle large amount s of cash. They cannot be so stupid for so long, or can they?

Hopefully when the ACH is launched later in theyear this will take care of the cash payment thing. The govt should be the first to "test" it. Let's hope they invest in the system.

It must be a Bahamian mind set.........

Transfer a thief ? Who was caught red handed ? Why not CHARGE HER criminally ? Set an example for the rest of the staff.

If she had gone into the Scotia Bank with a 9mm pistol and robbed the place of $36,000 would she be arrested ? Damm right she would..........

So why this farce ? Oh right, I forget, its the Bahamas, not the real world.

Jim B. Toronto.

And another thing.............

Cash payments of refunds and the like by government offices and departments ? Have they never heard of refund CHEQUES, which are more accountable and less prone to theft, than cash dollars.

Surely in a country that boasts that it is a " international banking centre " the Bahamian government can actually USE the banks to pay refunds or other financial obligations. Cash attracts sticky hands, in the work force.

Just another example of backwards thinking in the Bahamas.

Jim B.

It must be a Bahamian mind set.........
Transfer a thief ? Who was caught red handed ? Why not CHARGE HER criminally ? Set an example for the rest of the staff.
If she had gone into the Scotia Bank with a 9mm pistol and robbed the place of $36,000 would she be arrested ? Damm right she would..........
So why this farce ? Oh right, I forget, its the Bahamas, not the real world.
Jim B. Toronto.

Read the article that was posted. She was charged. Unfortunately not before she was transferred. In that case, whoever signed off on her transfer needs to be reprimanded as well, as it was obvious a cover up on the part of someone in authority.

This is the Bahamas, and just like the rest of the world, we face our own challenges. Hopefully we shall get better.