JESSE RAMDEO

Se­nior Re­porter

A Pub­lic Ac­counts Com­mit­tee (PAC) meet­ing to re­view the Au­di­tor Gen­er­al's re­port on the 2023 Pub­lic Ac­counts and a sub­se­quent spe­cial re­port sched­uled for to­day was sud­den­ly post­poned.

No ex­pla­na­tion for the de­lay has been pro­vid­ed.

The PAC broad­cast was set to be­gin at 10:30 am. How­ev­er, around 11:15 am, a rep­re­sen­ta­tive from Par­lia­ment an­nounced that the meet­ing had been post­poned. When asked about a new date or time for the meet­ing, the rep­re­sen­ta­tive was un­able to pro­vide any de­tails.

Au­di­tor Gen­er­al Jai­wantie Ram­dass ap­peared sur­prised by the un­ex­pect­ed de­lay and de­clined to com­ment.

The meet­ing, ac­cord­ing to the Par­lia­ment, was to dis­cuss the Re­port of the Au­di­tor Gen­er­al of the Re­pub­lic of Trinidad and To­ba­go on the Pub­lic Ac­counts of the Re­pub­lic of Trinidad and To­ba­go for the fi­nan­cial year 2023, in­clud­ing the Spe­cial Re­port of the Au­di­tor Gen­er­al on the Pub­lic Ac­counts for the fi­nan­cial year 2023.

Last week, the Privy Coun­cil dis­missed an ap­peal re­gard­ing Au­di­tor Gen­er­al Jai­wantie Ram­dass's right to pur­sue a law­suit over a Cab­i­net-ap­point­ed probe in­to the mis­rep­re­sen­ta­tion of rev­enue in the na­tion­al ac­counts.

Five Law Lords of the Privy Coun­cil dis­missed the ap­peal brought by Fi­nance Min­is­ter Colm Im­bert and the Cab­i­net af­ter hear­ing sub­mis­sions from the State’s at­tor­neys at the UK Supreme Court in Lon­don.

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