Auditor General’s Report flags HDC spending, govt rental and rising debt

The 2025 Au­di­tor Gen­er­al’s Re­port on the Pub­lic Ac­counts of T&T has un­veiled a se­ries of pro­found fis­cal ir­reg­u­lar­i­ties, sig­nalling a cri­sis of ac­count­abil­i­ty that spans from state-run hous­ing projects to high-lev­el in­ter­na­tion­al cred­it agree­ments.

The re­port, cov­er­ing the fi­nan­cial year end­ing Sep­tem­ber 30, 2025, was led by Au­di­tor Gen­er­al Jai­wantie Ram­dass.

Among the key is­sues in the re­port, which was laid in Par­lia­ment on Fri­day, was the Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion’s use of $78.07 mil­lion ap­proved for hous­ing con­struc­tion and in­fra­struc­ture works to in­stead fund grass cut­ting, garbage col­lec­tion, drain clean­ing and oth­er main­te­nance ac­tiv­i­ties.