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Gail Alexan­der

The Op­po­si­tion’s shad­ow min­is­ter of fi­nance, Dave Tan­coo, has ac­cused Fi­nance Min­is­ter Colm Im­bert of “duck­ing re­spon­si­bil­i­ty” in the is­sue with the Au­di­tor Gen­er­al., as he point­ed out the au­dit­ed fi­nan­cials for T&T’s 2023 ac­counts re­main “in­com­plete.”

Tan­coo is­sued a state­ment on the mat­ter yes­ter­day, af­ter Im­bert ex­plained on Wednes­day that there was no “miss­ing mon­ey” from the 2023 ac­counts, as the Op­po­si­tion and its leader Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar had claimed. Im­bert de­tailed how the $2.6 bil­lion was dis­cov­ered late for sub­mis­sion to the 2023 ac­counts to the Au­di­tor Gen­er­al due to a new Cen­tral Bank sys­tem, trig­ger­ing the is­sue. Im­bert said the Trea­sury has con­firmed that all rev­enue col­lect­ed for 2023 has since been ac­count­ed for.