Ministers need not budget?

Would any business czar defend a low manager in his company running up a phone bill well exceeding the company’s budget for the manager? Would he feel sorry and allow the manager a bligh? Is this the first time a minister or government employee has gone to the Bahamas? Don’t we have a database of facts for all countries? Upper-level public servants are too nonchalant when spending our taxes.

If the minister was earning lower-middle income, living the belt-tightening lifestyle of common people and roaming with her private phone, she would have done due diligence and researched roaming charges.

Police boast they have raised $7,445,000 from speeding tickets so far this year. The money raised can pay 126.2 phone bills up to $59,000. So money isn’t a problem.

The country’s bankroll is huge so ministers need not budget their expenses prior to travel.

SAM BOYSE via email