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Tuesday, July 15, 2025

PM ends Life Sport programme

Read the fi­nal re­port on the Life Sport au­dit

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The Life Sport pro­gramme has been­ter­mi­nat­ed by Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar.

The fi­nal re­port on th­e­long-await­ed au­dit in­to the con­tro­ver­sial Life Sport pro­gramme was laid in the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives by Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar this af­ter­noon.

Read the full re­port here: http://tinyurl.com/Life­S­portAu­dit.

The con­clu­sion of the re­port states: "From the re­view it is clear that the Life Sport pro­gramme has a num­ber ofir­reg­u­lar­i­ties judg­ing from the wide­spread ab­sen­teeism, ab­sence of prop­er pro­cure­ment prac­tices, over­pay­ment for goods and ser­vices and pos­si­ble crim­i­nal ac­tiv­i­ties rang­ing from fraud (where mon­ey has been in­voiced and paid but goods and ser­vices not sup­plied) to theft and pos­si­ble breach­es of the Pro­ceeds of Crime Act. In ad­di­tion, state­ments from mem­bers ofthe Po­lice Ser­vice with whom the au­di­tors in­ter­act­ed dur­ing the au­dit of the pro­gramme sug­gest that there may be crim­i­nal el­e­ments in po­si­tions of su­per­vi­sion and co­or­di­na­tion with­in the pro­gramme.

Giv­en the sub­stan­tial breach­es iden­ti­fied, it is rec­om­mend­ed that this mat­ter be re­ferred to the Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions and the rel­e­vant law en­force­ment agen­cies."

Per­sad-Bisses­sar did not com­ment on the po­lit­i­cal fu­ture of Sport Min­is­ter Anil Roberts.


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