The 2018 Auditor General’s report says that local government organs continue to function inefficiently and millions allocated for their improvement remain unspent.
According to the report, which was seen by this newspaper but was not officially released after being handed over to the National Assembly last year, the sum of $10 million allotted for strengthening of local government systems remained unspent at the end of the fiscal year.
A loan agreement was signed in March, 2018, between the Ministry and the Caribbean Development Bank, for the execution of the project but no contract was awarded in 2018.