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The Of­fice of Pro­cure­ment Reg­u­la­tion (OPR) has launched an in­ves­ti­ga­tion in­to the To­ba­go Re­gion­al Health Au­thor­i­ty’s (TRHA) mul­ti-mil­lion-dol­lar am­bu­lance pur­chase, fol­low­ing a for­mal com­plaint by Mi­nor­i­ty Leader Kelvon Mor­ris.

In a Face­book Live yes­ter­day, Mor­ris said the probe—even though it’s just start­ed—con­firms his long-stand­ing con­cerns about ir­reg­u­lar­i­ties in how the am­bu­lances were bought. He again ac­cused the TRHA of wast­ing tax­pay­ers’ mon­ey and called again for the im­me­di­ate res­ig­na­tion of the en­tire board.

“We have paid more than one-and-a-half mil­lion dol­lars for am­bu­lances that can­not work in To­ba­go,” Mor­ris said. “This is the great­est pro­cure­ment scan­dal in the his­to­ry of the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly.”