TOBAGO House of Assembly (THA) Minority Leader Kelvon Morris has called for an urgent meeting of the assembly’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) to discuss the 2024 report of the Auditor General.

In a statement on July 21, the Office of the Minority Leader said Morris, the PAC chairman, had written to the clerk of the assembly requesting the “urgent convening” of a hearing to review the 2024 report of the Auditor General on the accounts of the THA.

It said the Auditor General’s findings include “a range of troubling discrepancies, including an unaccounted sum of approximately $17 million in cheques which were issued but not presented or reflected in the accounting records raising serious concerns about financial oversight.