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The Gov­ern­ment will to­day present the Sen­ate with the Re­port of the Au­di­tor Gen­er­al on the fi­nan­cial state­ments of Trinidad and To­ba­go’s Her­itage and Sta­bil­i­sa­tion Fund (HSF) for the year end­ed Sep­tem­ber 30, 2025. This is ex­pect­ed to be done by the Min­is­ter of Fi­nance.

On Feb­ru­ary 11, Peo­ple’s Na­tion­al Move­ment (PNM) at­tor­neys Ran­dall Mitchell and Stu­art Young sent Fi­nance Min­is­ter Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo a le­gal let­ter on be­half of Con­gress of the Peo­ple field op­er­a­tions of­fi­cer Wen­dell Ever­s­ley. The let­ter con­cerned Tan­coo’s fail­ure to lay the au­dit­ed fi­nan­cial state­ments for the HSF in Par­lia­ment by the re­quired time, which was Jan­u­ary 31, 2026.

The at­tor­neys gave Tan­coo 30 days to pro­vide ex­pla­na­tions for the de­lay or face ju­di­cial re­view. They cit­ed sec­tion 21 of the Her­itage and Sta­bil­i­sa­tion Act, which gov­erns the min­is­ter’s an­nu­al re­port­ing oblig­a­tions. The Act states that with­in four months of the end of the fi­nan­cial year, the Min­is­ter shall cause the au­dit­ed fi­nan­cial state­ments in re­spect of the Fund to be laid in Par­lia­ment.