No surprise here but you get lots of insight as to how these shysters were running our money. You gat a PM that clearly didn't trust his DPM and takes the major building contracts from under his portfolio (I believe Bannister referred to it as PPL) and assigns them to himself, constantly overrode his DPM and MOW protocol to give major contracts to the party's cronies with no oversight or accountability and then takes the management of the clean up effort after a hurricane with millions of dollars involved and places that into the hands of Shame Gibson - proverbially allowing the rat to guard the cheese - and now all this money has been paid out and nobody knows anything. DPM clueless, Shame don't know nothing and PM who probably was behind most of the shyterism ain't come up for air since that cut hip at the polls

Boy I tell you. You just can't make this stuff up.

Yep. We got value all right! value added tax. This dude is a joke!

“Only when you wrong you defend yourself....When you guilty is when you talk.”

Well darn! "Minky" Issacs must be guilty as hell!

This dude is a class act. He's actually admitting he was 'invited to bid' and then got the contract while others legitimately put in bids and they were ignored. No wonder he carry on so bad the night his precious Perry resigned as leader of the party. Gravy train gone!!

I'm beginning to realize why they loved Mr. Christie so much. And it had nothing to do with his great leadership skills. While he was at the helm slackness, corruption unaccountability and cronyism can't done. I think he was leading the charge and they simply followed.

Well isn't it about time that someone did talk?? We knew it was bad but we didn't know it was THIS bad. Those shysters were backside raping our country to the tune of millions dollars. Personally, I would take the lip service any day to just another Government taking up where the last crew left off.

It's time to clean house and even if they can't prosecute them (which everyone is hoping they can) at least lets put some legislation in place to prevent this from happening going forward.

The saga continues.... more wastage and padded contracts.

There must be some way to figure out if there were kickbacks involved.

It's just too much.

Someone need to go to jail!!

Not surprising that Allyson fix up hersef!

What astounds me is they were anxious to get back for another term to finish us off!!

"most creative artist"??? I do believe he said he had a law degree. Surely he was taught in law school to cross his "t's" and dot his "i's". Because the big wigs in the Government did not find it fitting to put a proper contract in place which detailed what nearly half a million of taxpayers' dollars was being spent on, does not in any way exempt him just because he didn't see fit to insist on it. Mr. Poitier was at the very least complicit in this matter. He is by no means innocent!

I'm also glad that you had had the benefit of seeing his work and can vouch that it was worth $400,000 per annum. I wish that the taxpayers had this benefit because I can't think of anyone outside of you and former Minister who agree with this. It's bullshi*!!

How is it not his fault that he didn't have a written contract?? He lists his qualifications as being a trained attorney. I think that's law 101, aye? You cover your azz!

You seem to be caught up with D'Aguilar exposing the contract - albeit recklessly. I'm caught up with the fact that Poitier was being paid for consultancy services without a written contract detailing what those services were. Just his word in a press statement that reads like an inflated resume.

This is not the PLP's first rodeo show. You're going to tell me that the Minister of Tourism and the Prime Minister - senior Ministers of the Government - would offer to pay for consultancy services using a huge hunk of taxpayers' dollars and not have a contract to say what those services were or what the grounds were for terminating the contract if the consultant screwed up? Sounds kinda fishy to me - and I'm just a taxpayer.