This is a good start !!! Let's hope some prosecutions result.

Let's hope THE PEOPLE can afford the cost of the forensic audits! Wonder who will conduct them?

Lord they finally sent that old hag sir baltron home! Long flipp*n overdue!

Baltron "Bag Man" Bethel belongs in a Fox Hill cell !

The very thought of this most corrupt man collecting pension, health and other benefits off of the backs of honest, hardworking, and overburdened taxpayers is most repulsive to say the least. The new Minnis-led government should cease all of the very costly forensic audits if there is no intention of prosecuting (on the basis of evidence gathered) those who have so clearly abused the public trust for their own wrongful, illegal and unjust self-gain at the taxpayers expense.

Let's hope the local accounting firms have not been engaged to perform the very costly forensic audits. These same accounting firms have failed for many years now to detect during their annual audits and report on the many glaring instances of material corruption and fraud that has occurred at so many of our government owned and/or controlled entities, like Bank of The Bahamas, The National Insurance Fund, BEC/BPL, Bahamasair, ZNS, and so on.

Many of us are beginning to think Minnis wants these forensic audits done so when someone complains a year or two from now about irregularities within his own government, he can hold up a forensic report and say: "We met this problem. I have the forensic report to prove it. So don't blame it on my government"..... or better still ..."This ain't nothing new, I have the forensic report that says it was always done that way." WE DON'T WANT OR NEED A MASSIVE COSTLY CYA FORENSIC EXERCISE DR. MINNIS IF NONE OF THE BIG WIG CROOKS WILL END UP BEING HELD ACCOUNTABLE AND RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES." It's not enough for you to send them home or retire them so that they can enjoy their ill-gotten gains and also receive pension, heath and other benefits off of our already heavily burdened backs. 'It's the people's time' Dr. Minnis, and we fully expect you to make good on your most important promises to us!

Comrades! It's a joke!
But a changing of the guard - out one colour political party's t-shirts ........ In different party's political appoints wearing new colours.
This exact same 'show n tell' message was the advance sermon of Papa Hubert's 1st, 2nd and 3rd red regime ..... and we all well knows what abuses continued tooks place over at NIB.
The same new set power political appoints people heading over to NIB, is to be appoint by the same reds - who talked so badly in opposition about VAT?
Shame on you, if you believe - It's the People's time!

The Bag Man likely failed to submit his resignation or did so and Minnis was fool enough to leave him in the PM's office all this time thinking he would be helpful to the transition arrangements. You can bet the Bag Man used his continued access to the PM's office to destroy whatever sensitive evidence of illegal activities still remained. And now Minnis calls in a forensic audit team to try find the very evidence of illegal activities that he himself gave the Bag Man more time to shred or otherwise destroy. The foolishness here on the part of Minnis is baffling and at the very least calls into question whether he was the least bit sincere in saying that those who abused their political office and the public trust should have something to fear!

What if he left the Bagman there w/ a camera that was placed by Minnis IT folks and the Bagman hanged himself on video ,actually do you really believe Bagman showed up one day after the 10 th and if so he was closely watched ..

There is so much corruption and political favoritism to sort out that it is unreasonable to expect Minnis to do everything in a couple of weeks. God knows that when you start a new job it takes time to get settled in. This is a positive step and should, be applauded. B. Bethel was a leech and he anf many other cost this country a small fortune.

I wonder why sir baltron would have reported to work on May 11?? Send in resignation, let the people know how to contact you if they need to. And I say that not because he's PLP and it's an FNM administration, he's waaaay beyond retirement age and he's fully aware he was only there due to his friendship with PM Christie.

I have had occasion to speak to the man on many occasions throughout the years. He was cognitively losing it as far back as 2007. Several colleagues, after talking to him, asked me if he was suffering from dementia years ago.

Ok .. Well that would explain it, he didn't know where he was :-|

That's precisely what the wily 'ole fox said to the rooster when he walked into the chicken coop: "I don't know where I am, but I do know what to do!"

Lol

This is actually a very good way to ferret out fraudsters, or systems that are failing. Persons in critical positions can prop up processes so that abnormalities go undetected. Mandating that persons exit office for an extended period with zero contact is an established security control measure

You've been reading too many old school Auditor 101 Guides. Many persons are quite capable of working from their home today thanks to the advances in remote communication systems. I suspect Minnis and his IT people have yet to figure out how to deny the likes of the Bag Man access to the government's confusing myriad of computer systems!

Sorry. I worked for one of these organizations and they're a little more imaginative than you suspect. So this is experience, not book learnin'. All of your rights would be revoked for the period. Zero access. No company email, no company phone, no company network access or system accounts, no logging in from home. Strict instructions not to contact the office.

It's actually very easy to do. No matter how many accounts you have, the first thing to do is disable network access. (I don't believe Sir Baltron is capable of hacking into anything). Can't get on the network can't access any systems. System access isn't much more difficult. The IT people at Finance are more than capable.

Now if you want to play smart and use your Grammy email or your cousin phone to ask a coworker to "fix" some transaction while you're out, that's on you. Just pray you're not caught.

I beg to disagree. You are ascribing, across the board, the qualities of well run computer systems usually found in the private sector to our government's many very poorly kept and uncoordinated IT systems.

You seem to the think Minnis is brain damaged , did he not just pull off one of the largest election wins in our history w/ untold plots against him .Is he not a Doctor and an astute business man

Ok so first I only read a book, now I'm projecting:) I'm actually not ascribing anything to them, I know some of the people. They're highly qualified and certainly capable of disabling network and system access. Does that mean everything always works perfectly? No. But it doesn't work perfectly in the best of companies. Did you see British Airways over the weekend? Remember the WhatsApp IT failure?

Your theory was they could access the system from home. That implies a network and user accounts. User accounts can be disabled. It's very easy. Those guys are installing servers, updating software, installing software. System access is the probably the easiest of their tasks. Now the discussion changes if you're talking about a superUser who can bypass controls...but I doubt that describes Sir Baltron.

Do you have any idea how easy it is to leave backdoors of one kind or another into network servers and make use of freely available tools for remote access log tracking suppression? Bradley Roberts can pull up just about any Customs Dept. record he wants from his home and leave no trail doing so. The IT wizards within the PLP have been at work for the last 5 years. My iPhone is now more secure than most of the systems our government has in place.

Yes I do. **I did say "*the discussion changes IF you're talking about a super user who can bypass controls...BUT this is about Sir Baltron***"...you know, the man who hit Reply All on the email describing how the government would work with CCA against Izmiriluan. I can see him sending an email to the entire Group saying "ok everyone I'm logged in now. Thanks". Lol

I am sure Mr: Bethel would know he had to go, But the others I am not so sure.

All of this talk about forensic audit. Just talk to make those who voted for them to believe
they are doing something. They know there s nothing there. Because these fellows have no
vision. they create smoke there is no fire. No vision as to how to carry this Country forward.
The FNM has never done anything to carry the Bahamas or its people forward. never, ever.

The Bahamian public wants to know if the $2 Billion NIB moneypot is secure for the future ....... No questions or conjectures are necessary ......... Just let the people know what Shame Gibson and his crooked cronies did with OUR money

Political appointees need to resign. Why you still there when you know you got the job, not through your awesome intelligence or abilities, but because...................

Alfred Gray fully explained this within the first month of the PLP's reign of tiefin.

Is the Tribune now under investigation by the newly legitimated National Intelligence Agency??

I suppose the influential will continue to have their way in this country #elitistconspiracy