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St. Ann Municipal Corporation Office of the Contractor General November 2017
sought to ascertain her awareness of the facility and/ or practice:
“Q
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…You are aware, Miss Carter, that what is happening
in respect of this - I used the word awful, I think,
earlier, group payment.
There is this notion that the Parish Council then and the
Municipal Council now, because I hear it is still being
done up to December of last year, but we will get to
that, that because the Parish Council doesn't want all
these people at the cashier at Christmas, hundreds of
people, the Parish Council has insisted that these
groups, that the Member of Parliament should provide
names, and this person should collect for a number of
persons and they can disburse the money rather than
piling up all the people at the Parish Council. Have you
ever heard of this?
A:
No, I have never heard of that, sir. I have heard of the
group payment, though.
Q:
Has it happened in your time in terms of issuing
groups?
A:
I am not aware because when the contracts come to
us, they have an individual's name on the contract so I
would not be aware that this amount is going to be
paid to a number of persons
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The Inability to identify the ‘true’ Beneficiaries of Group Payments and/or Contracts
Based upon the representation made by Ms. Andrea Smith and Ms. Lisa Hanna, specifically as it regards the
insistence, on the part of the St. Ann Municipal Corporation, that payments be grouped, and that the letters
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Transcript of hearing which was dated June 2, 2017, involving, Mr. Claudiah Carter, Pages 11 and 12.