All of this fraud is happening right under the nose of Hanna-Martin.....this grossly incompetent MP should have been barred from holding any cabinet post many many years ago. The voters in her constituency need to wake up and understand that re-electing her time and time again has done absolutely nothing for their well-being. The people in her poor constituency who desperately need welfare and other social benefits are going without them because of all of the fraud and corruption happening right under the nose of Hanna-Martin that depletes and squanders vital financial resources needed elsewhere in our society by those truly in need of food, clothing, medicine and shelter. Career politicians like Hanna-Martin live the life of the political elite while leaving the rest of us living in abject misery! This is but one MP the voters need to reject outright in the next general election. The one with the short stubby grubby dirty sticky fingers remains at the very top of the list though, as does Christie himself!

While Hard working Bahamians are being taxed to the bone and struggling Bahamian business are being taxed out of existence, this is what is happening to our tax dollars. Corruption everywhere, no accountability anywhere and while they live high on the 'hogg' the Average Bahamian barely has food on his table. Imagine that: one government agency accounting for one third of the revenue it is suppose to be collecting. Is it now time to sell your house and flee to the countryside?

The FNM instituted several improvements to the Road Traffic back in its 1997-2002 term ...... nothing was done to improve that between 2002 and now ....... Hanna Martin has been the RTD Minister for 9 of those 14 years ...... why is she looking to pass the blame???? .... What has she done, beyond talking about these "new IT systems" that we are yet to see????

........... but regardless of the lack of an IT system, it speaks to the lack of ethical and personal integrity among the RTD staff ....... that is a civil service problem (who hires those unethical thieving RTD employees???)

(Who hires those unethical thieving RTD employees???)

All these corrupt practices and procedures are allowed by their unethical thieving bosses, who answer to the unethical, thieving Ministers, who sit in Cabinet with the unethical, thieving Prime Minister

Amazing. We pay taxes and get nothing to show for it. $47 million disappeared in to thin air.

That is how some civil servants and their families are able to live like millionaires without any investigation or scrutiny .......... but I agree with "watcher", it starts from the top .......... we run a slack country

Indeed!

That is a stunning, staggering display of outright theft. Anybody want to guess how many people will go to jail? Anybody? Would anybody bet even 5 cents on any answer other than, "Nobody" ...?

Why do we still base all of our Civil Service Laws and Internal Policing Regulations on a system that pre-dated Ministerial government (1964) ................. General Orders??????? ....... hmmmmmmmm

She is probably a very nice person, but after four years, the auditor general should not have been able to come to her with this report. She should have had a report to give him with all of the remediation plans and what was already implemented the minute he stepped in the door. Receipt books don't cut it.

37 million? To imagine the sheer scale of the transactions this must cover when a single car license won't exceed $500?????? She should have had this under control by year two otherwise she's at minimum ineffective at maximum incompetent.

If they knew there was a problem, there should have been strict control over sticker handling and distribution. Only a quota given out per day, a reconciliation conducted at the start and end of every day and everything else kept in a safe with strict access controls.

Hanna Martin has proven to be completely ineffective in her role. Time she was moved on but you know it won't happen.

........... Systemic corruption supported by 100% endemic political corruption ............

Non of this blatant corruption in RTD would be remotely possible without facilitators and incompetent leaders at the very top of the management and political chain.

Hanna-Martin should be held accountable and fired as transport minister, and independently investigated for collusion with others in the purposeful delay of tabling solutions for Bahamas to benefit for use of our air space worth millions annually.

If simply cannot take 4 years to draft an agreement for control of our air space, when every country has best practice agreements readily available to draw from!

Our country is controlled bow to stern by pirates who share the spoils of under the table deals.

Trusting Christie, Hanna-Martin and crew is not an option!

Mr. Terrance Bastian is the most effective Auditor General our country has had in decades and he is accomplishing much on a shoe string budget with very little resources being made available to him. The Bahamian people would be wise to insist our government quadruple Mr. Bastian's resources so that he can continue ferreting out the gaping bleeding holes in our country's revenue generating ability caused by wide spread systemic waste, fraud and corruption.

No Bahamian politician or civil servant really want this AUDGEN Department to function effectively ..... it cramps their thieving fingers and their over-the-top lifestyles ............ this Dept. should expect a severe cut in June's 2016-17 Budget

How many Class A,B,C, and D licensed vehicles are annually registered?????? 400,000???

How many active individual licenses are annually registered in the country????? 200,000???

What should be the expected RTD revenue each year???? .......... $100 million????

Soooooooooo, why is it that RTD say they only collecting about $30 million?????

What kind of voodoo economics is that????????? ........ every RTD employee's individual financial accounts should be audited until this money is found .......... this is outrageous!!!!!

The government needs to privatise every department they can ASAP, starting with Bahamasair.
Theft in all these and I'm sure more to come...
Post office
BEC
Hospitals
Social Security
BAMSI
NIB
Passport Office
Environmental Health

And who is next?

.......... and do not forget the public schools where some principals are running million dollar plus turnover budgets ......... can you imagine what is going on there??????

**The education system with the biggest budget is the fattest cow of the lot**

Its no secret politicians, permanent secretary's, principles etc' have been hybrid-milking education and sharing the spoils for decades.

Money just disappears into thin air same as health and social services.

Massive pilferage on the grandest scale everywhere, as they tax us into oblivion and give Haitian parasites a free ride to boot!

In any other country and this happened under your portfolio, you'd be forced to resign whilst investigation is taking place.

The RTD Controllers and Chief Financial Officers for the years under review should be hauled before the Public Service Commission to answer for this ........... someone must account for some of this lost revenue ............ some heads should roll for this serious bumbling and malfeasance of our public funds ........ the PAC should insist on this one

Sheeprunner, you are absolutely right. As a teacher in this country for 37 years Most Principles never submit accounts for school income or expenditure to the staff often saying it is non of their business. This is bull-- it as any monies collected from a tuck shop or school band is PUBLIC money and as such accounts should be given. Mind you whilst some departments languish for lack of supplies etc the Principles often use school funds for educational matters off the island.

Senior representatives of The Bahamas Institute of Chartered Accountants (BICA) and the larger accounting firms should all be voicing their strong support for the Auditor General's Office to receive sufficient financial resources to hire additional trained and competent auditing and administrative personnel necessary to root out instances of massive waste, fraud and corruption wherever it may exist within our government departments and agencies, and government controlled corporations. I would highly recommend Mr. Bastian be allowed to focus his efforts on the Foundation Sean McQueeney and Franky Wilson (aka Snake) helped government set up to hold a 2% non-voting equity interest in BTC (formerly Batelco) and also on Bahamas Resolve, the government entity into which 13 delinquent loans made by Bank of The Bahamas (BoB) were transferred at grossly inflated values in order to try re-capitalize BoB. Where are the voices of support for Mr. Terrance Bastian from BICA and the larger accounting firms?

Nothing from 'Birdie" in all this?

I am sure that Birdie can explain why, like "It wasn't explained clearly that they were not allowed to keep the money" or "They didn't know that they were stealing the money" or "They really meant to pay it back but things have been so tough that they haven't been able to pay it back."

Birdie, where are you to vindicate these thieves?

The Auditor General should have conducted an investigation into how many of Hanna-Martin's supporters who are registered voters in her constituency are employed by RTD and other government departments and agencies for which she has ministerial responsibility. This is one sleazy corrupt woman who learned her political trickery from her father. Were it not for A. D. Hanna's willingness to engage in nepotism to ply his daughter's way in politics, the Bahamian people would have been spared the costly consequences of Hanna-Martin's incompetence as a career politician. The only thing this potcake of a politician ever came equipped with is a loud mouth; she is well known to bark, yap and yelp ad nauseam whenever hit by a stone! Hanna-Martin and Leslie Miller have an awful lot in common in that regard. And they both have a serious deficit of grey matter upstairs!

OUCH!!!!!!! ................ the old PLP oligarchy has created a lot of evil spawn

Please stop making this a party politics issues. These b!t&es been tiefn under every government. A tief is a tief no matter who's in power. The reality is we need a reformed civil service. One which requires proper vetting and accountability. Sad part is for corruption to thrive we the citizens are supportive these illegal practices. Under the table deals for license and registration. It all boils down to poor system design. The thieves there issue registration to non road worthy vehicles and on the other end the police cruise on by when a light is busted or a car is emitting so much smoke that you can hardly see the road. So what is to be expected ? Corruption, slackness and people who love piracy.

Why, when and how did they revert from licences being computer printed to hand written? is this to aid crookedness and corruption? Each year when you licence your vehicle(s) they give you forms to fill out saying. "so nexx year when you come you ainn gatta wait so long 'cause erryting gone be in the computer and we jes have ta print it out." Well das one dam' selfish computer 'cause it ainn' print out no licence yet.' At least not for me.

Business as usual---Are we really supposed to be surprised

Looks like business as usual---Are we really supposed to be surprised??

ACCOUNTABILITY?????

**Nothing will come of this, shut up and bend over, your government is going to screw you. FACT!**

They don't even bother to apply Vaseline to you first nowadays.