Just when you thought the government’s rent bill was the big headline, Public Service Union President Dean Flowers had more to say and it’s drawing even more attention. At a recent press conference, Flowers revealed that the government is shelling out a staggering seventeen million dollars a year in overtime payments. And that’s not all. He also pointed to government spending on vehicles between 2021 and 2025, another area where the numbers are adding up fast.
Dean Flowers, President, Public Service Union
“Let us look at vehicles. Let us look at vehicles. Because that is also a new hustle, a continues hustle. I look at 2021, 2022 coming out of COVID. That is the year people were eating. We spent, in accordance with the records that we were able to put our hands on, ten point two million dollars in vehicles and what stood out to me here is that twenty percent of that went not to the dealers, because we have our established dealers, but two point two million dollars were put in the hands of a small group of private citizens. Let me tell you how many of them it was, one two three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen of them. Two point two million. We didn’t do much purchases in 2022, 2023. We see again in 2023, 2024 they didn’t get a whole lot but we would have spent a substantial amount. Again in 2024/2025 those same group of individuals, but only five of them were responsible for twenty-eight percent or one point two million dollars. So certain car dealers the make serious money.”
