The saga continues with the Bermudiana Beach Resort, aka the Grand Atlantic, soon to become rental apartments for high-end guest workers. Yes, because of blunders, what was originally built for middle-income local workers now is looking to the foreign market to bail out the mess.

Ironically, this same sector to whom Lieutenant-Colonel David Burch, while in charge of immigration, said: “You can leave and take your nannies along with you.”

This same minister is now welcoming them back to clean up his own mess, but in a new portfolio.

I have heard of the maxim “A second bite at the same cherry,” but in this case, how about exchanging “bite” with “defecation”?

How does one snub a group one day and then essentially beg for its assistance the next?

There is only one minister who can accomplish that feat, and that is because he has no conscience and is seemingly incapable of showing remorse for mistakes made.

It is worth investigating whether he is given a licence to perpetuate what should be seen as a crime. Where is the Auditor-General? Former auditors Larry Dennis and Heather Jacobs would not have missed this.

The Auditor-General’s job is not for the faint-hearted or the timid. It is a constitutional position paid for by the taxpayers to act independently from the Government to oversee and report on government expenditure.

What can incumbent Heather Thomas report on this matter? What has she reported thus far? How did we go from, let’s say, $20 million to $100 million?

A 500 per cent increase is not a little slip-up — it’s a blunder, a huge blunder. And we have heard nothing from the Minister of Finance or tourism minister to explain or justify the increased expense.

This lack of accountability begs the question of whether the Premier, his Cabinet ministers and the Auditor-General are afraid to face the almost-certain belligerence of the Minister of Public Works.

There are far too many unanswered questions and concerns that procedures may have been breached in rapidly switching from one concept to another.

Politics is truly at its worst when a debacle such as a trilogy of failed purposes is slipped under the rug. We live in a dispensation of responsible government, where the public are owed answers on how their tax money is spent.

Messing up with taxpayer dollars is not a privilege. This matter should not be pushed under the carpet, and a forensic investigation or Commission of Inquiry is needed — no matter the cost — to let the public and international business know where the money was spent. Our integrity rests on having clarity on this much publicised matter.

For Colonel Burch, who has enjoyed two ministries, both with highly questionable and contentious performances, to be allowed to continue with the responsibility of spending taxpayer funds is an indictment against everyone.