Near­ly $677 mil­lion has been spent on in­com­plete school projects across T&T, with sev­er­al sites aban­doned, over­grown and, in one case, non-ex­is­tent, ac­cord­ing to the Au­di­tor Gen­er­al’s 2025 re­port.

The Au­di­tor Gen­er­al has rec­om­mend­ed that fund­ing be pri­ori­tised to com­plete stalled projects and that mon­i­tor­ing sys­tems be strength­ened to pre­vent fur­ther de­lays, warn­ing that with­out ur­gent in­ter­ven­tion, pub­lic funds will con­tin­ue to be tied up in un­fin­ished in­fra­struc­ture while schools and com­mu­ni­ties are left with­out ba­sic fa­cil­i­ties.

The find­ings in Chap­ter Four of the re­port paint a trou­bling pic­ture of stalled in­fra­struc­ture, weak over­sight and poor project ex­e­cu­tion with­in the Min­istry of Ed­u­ca­tion’s school con­struc­tion pro­gramme. A list of five stalled projects alone ac­counts for $116 mil­lion in ex­pen­di­ture, yet all re­main in­com­plete, with progress as low as 11 per cent.