THE Office of Procurement Regulation (OPR) has acceded to a request from Minority Leader of the Tobago House of Assembly (THA) Kelvon Morris to launch an investigation into allegations of ‘irregularity’ into the Tobago Regional Health Authority’s (TRHA) controversial $18 million ambulance procurement.

Both Morris and Innovative Democratic Alliance (IDA) political leader Dr Denise Tsoiafatt Angus have demanded urgent investigations into the supply and delivery of ambulances to the TRHA, which they claim has left the island with a non-functional fleet and an unreliable emergency response system.

Tsoiafatt Angus said the matter also warranted a fraud squad investigation as the ambulances were nothing more than “refurbished panel vans not fit for purpose.”