Between 2017 and 2019, the Ministry of Education failed to supply schools across the country with 71% of the textbooks they requested even though hundreds of millions of dollars were spent to procure books for students.
The information was contained in a special audit on the receipt, storage, allocation and distribution of textbooks to schools in Guyana.
The Audit Office found that although over $989 million worth of textbooks were purchased, the Ministry of Education was out of stock of core texts for several months.