Ewart Brown /Paula Cox PLP Pay-to-PLAY consultants

by Sal | February 16, 2010 at 03:52 am

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In less than two years, three Government Ministries have hired 130 consultants

Finance Minister Paula Cox. Her Ministry has used 66 consultants in the past two years.

Three Government ministries hired 130 consultants between them in less than two years.

The Ministry of Finance alone used 66 consultants from May 1, 2008 to January 31 this year, according to figures released in Parliament on Friday; the Ministry of Health employed 55, and the Ministry of Education nine.

Ministers Paula Cox, Walter Roban and Elvin James provided an extensive breakdown showing all the experts their ministries have brought in, and the amount they were paid.

Many of the highest earners have been in Health, including New York-based Kurron Shares, which is receiving $11 million plus expenses over five years for giving management assistance to Bermuda Hospitals Board.

A separate company called Kurron Bermuda was awarded $1 million for implementing FutureCare.

The KEMH Redevelopment Project gets approximately $10 million providing support and advice for the hospital rebuild PPP project, while the Greeley Company of Massachusetts got just short of $900,000 providing Chief of Staff Donald Thomas and associated services.

Ewart Brown's Pay-to-PLAY consultants feather their nest at Bermuda Taxpayer's expense

Somebody has to be hired to do the work because nobody in the plp party knows their a** from a hole in the ground.

A lot of this work easily could be handled by Bermuda Companies... particularly the on-line work.

But that's saved for Friends and Family Plan.

But Ewart Brown won't hire local consultants or give the work to local companies because they are fearful that they might DIG UP THE DIRT!

The Henry Johnson deal is particularly laughable. Just what the hell did we get for half a million?

"Morenau Sobeco was hired from Ontario, Canada, to conduct "a review of the annual review process" among other tasks in 2008, costing $51,000."

Education spent just over $1.3 million with Henry Johnson getting $426,000 for overseeing the implementation of the Hopkins Report's recommendations."