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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.
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