No different than signing an employment contract but your job description and duties may differ than those outlined in your original contract.

What I am saying is this, that the Cabinet does not sit and debate ALL of the intricacies drafted in a contract. You are right though the contract should have been drafted and reviewed by a legal entity especially when the amount of $ distributed was in excess. And I as mentioned in a preceding message, the PS was instructed to pay the funds to him directly. Whatever the TERMS of the contract stipulated was a defining factor in why AC was found not guilty.

LOL either way you slice it the contract seem like it was not vetted correctly and someone approved it. So are you saying it was and unethical but not illegal pay off.

Secondly, CABINET is not interested in any contract more than 2 pages. There are far too many topics to debate and discuss.

Show us who drew up the contract and who reviewed and signed it. Please, Please show us the ACCOUNTABILITY the PLP way.

Honestly this whole thing is a BIG JOKE. The PLP is a joke. BUT I”m not laughing and neither is alot of other people.

A contract “maybe” described as a promise or a set of promises which the law will enforce. There are 5 major elements of a valid contract and (1)of them being that there must be certainty as to the terms of the contract. If the terms of an agreement are so vague or indefinite than it is not possible to discover the intention of the parties with reasonable certainty, therefore there is no valid contract.

More importantly, what should be considered is that within governement there is no set legal entity that drafts contracts. It essentially boils down to an administrator. Furthermore, what I can’t seem to understand is that some provision or clause in the contract should have stipulated how payments were distributed (i.e, paper trail to the FBT entertainers direct especially when they FBT entertainers too, have to sign contracts and terms of agreements must be met in order to procure there services).

What happens when the system doesn’t work (as is clearly the case here and confirmed by both the prosecution & defence lawyers)? Who is accountable to the Bermudian people?

LOL

The OBA should be chucking Mark Pettingill out. You can’t have a Party standing for ethics with a leading member willing to protect such blatent actions. I sure won’t vote for him.

When we think about governments current cash strapped situation, this highlights one of the reasons why they have gotten into this situation. Noone can believe this is the first time “unethical, but not illegal” behaviour has occurred, will be millions lost in such practices.

The government are now desparately trying to tax us anyway they can to make up for it.

Two words – NO MINISTER!

More PLP incompetence.

Can we now get a statement from Cog and Ewart Brown why they simply authorised tax payers money to be given, with no control, to a political favourite? The spotlight should now fall on the former Premier and his incompetent finance minister.

It used to be that people were innoncent until found guilty, but I guess under the PLP this fact of life has changed.

It’s obvious to me that few of you have really followed the case. You all want your pound of flesh.

Anyone with an inkling of sense knows that if you only get 8 votes in your constituency, then politics probably isnt for you. Even you should know that Sen. Furbert…….

In your opinion, Pettingill did his job.Who picks up his tab for defending Curtis? Lawyers do not do anything for free,or does it just go on the bill of outstanding monies owed?

I imagine it will be the taxpayers that will have to pay it.If this is in fact the case,then isn’t your Mark Pettingill on the same level as Andre Curtis?

I am not a lawyer……just askin’