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Wednesday, July 30, 2025

Carmona to clear the air Monday

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Pres­i­dent An­tho­ny Car­mona will ad­dress sev­er­al is­sues raised in the pub­lic do­main re­lat­ed to his of­fice on Mon­day.

Over the last cou­ple days de­bate has been rag­ing about spend­ing at the Pres­i­dent's House, af­ter the Au­di­tor Gen­er­al's re­port point­ed to "85 in­stances of in­cor­rect clas­si­fi­ca­tion of ex­pen­di­ture, to­talling $2,685,236.90, in con­tra­ven­tion of fi­nan­cial reg­u­la­tion 65, which stip­u­lates that a vote may not be ap­plied to a pur­pose for which it was not in­tend­ed" at Pres­i­dent's House.

In the re­port, Au­di­tor Gen­er­al Ma­jid Ali said: "Ty­po­graph­i­cal and oth­er er­rors, as well as omis­sions con­tin­ue to be ev­i­dent in cer­tain Ap­pro­pri­a­tion Ac­counts sub­mit­ted for au­dit."

How­ev­er, he made it clear that er­rors or omis­sions which were re­ferred to "have no ma­te­r­i­al ef­fect on the truth and fair­ness of the Pub­lic Ac­counts," un­less oth­er­wise stat­ed in the re­port.

There were al­so queries about spend­ing on wine and jew­el­ry.

In a press re­lease yes­ter­day, Car­mona said he would ad­dress the mat­ter on Mon­day.

He al­so of­fered con­do­lences to the fam­i­ly of his but­ler Choy Richard­son who died ear­li­er this week.

"Choy Richard­son was a gen­uine, lov­ing hu­man be­ing we were priv­i­leged to know and who we re­spect­ed tremen­dous­ly for his ex­em­plary self­less­ness and his sense of per­son­al con­sid­er­a­tion for all.

"His lov­ing sense of gen­uine ser­vice en­sured those he served en­joyed every mo­ment of the func­tion they at­tend­ed. His work eth­ic was phe­nom­e­nal. Choy was very com­pas­sion­ate and kind to our chil­dren, Chris­t­ian and Anu­ra, and for this we are eter­nal­ly grate­ful.

"His ca­pac­i­ty to please and com­fort knew no bounds. We are in deep grief at his un­time­ly pass­ing," Car­mona said.

Richard­son's fu­ner­al is card­ed for Mon­day.


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