For the second consecutive year, Auditor General Jaiwantie Ramdass has issued a disclaimer of opinion on Trinidad and Tobago’s Public Accounts, citing the inability to obtain “sufficient appropriate audit evidence”.

“What this means is that the Auditor General could not verify, validate or approve the accounts of the Government for two years,” Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar said yesterday.

Persad-Bissessar said this was just one aspect of the “fiscal mayhem” that her administration has inherited from the previous People’s National Movement government.