Contractor General Greg Christie has come under fire for his stance in the Sandals Whitehouse matter. In particular, a complaint he made that many public sector bodies flout government procurement guidelines and more still simply ignore requests made by the Office of the Contractor General for information that might reveal same.

Amazingly, there are few, if any, sanctions and where they do exist, such measures are inconsequential.

It's time our politicians move beyond setting up understaffed organisations with few resources and little actual power to fight the corruption they claim they so desperately want to get rid of. It's time they move beyond platitudes.

- Archibald Gordon, skilarchie@hotmail.com.

Contractor General Greg Christie told the Public Accounts Committee that he did not need to ask twice for information. I humbly submit that he is wrong. While the relevant section of the Contractor General Act does not oblige him to ask for a document twice, an investigation as critical and high profile as that involving the Sandals Whitehouse project demands that he does what is necessary to get the facts before drawing conclusions, especially given the tone of his report.

After asking for and getting files from the UDC on the Whitehouse project, it is entirely within reason to expect that if there are any documents missing that are deemed important to the investigation, a second letter would have been written demanding that they be provided immediately. To suggest that he didn't do this because he's not required to, is petty and suggests that the appeal of a headline accusing, the UDC of a cover-up was more desirable than getting the facts.