OPR Directs HDC to Pause $3.4 Billion in Housing Contracts

The Of­fice of Pro­cure­ment Reg­u­la­tion (OPR) has for­mal­ly di­rect­ed the Hous­ing De­vel­op­ment Cor­po­ra­tion (HDC) to hold on the award of TT$3.4 bil­lion in hous­ing con­tracts pend­ing a com­pre­hen­sive re­view of pro­cure­ment pro­ceed­ings.

In a state­ment is­sued on April 16, 2026, the OPR said the di­rec­tive was giv­en on Tues­day, April 14, 2026. The Of­fice not­ed that the en­quiry was ini­ti­at­ed to en­sure full com­pli­ance with the Pub­lic Pro­cure­ment and Dis­pos­al of Pub­lic Prop­er­ty Act, 2015, as amend­ed, along with its as­so­ci­at­ed reg­u­la­tions, hand­books, and guide­lines.

The OPR stat­ed that the ac­tion was tak­en pur­suant to its pow­ers un­der Sec­tions 14(1)(a), (c), and (d) of the Act.

The Of­fice al­so in­di­cat­ed that it will make no fur­ther com­ment on the mat­ter in or­der to en­sure the in­tegri­ty of its on­go­ing en­quiry process.

The is­sue was brought in­to the pub­lic do­main by Camille Robin­son-Reg­is, for­mer hous­ing min­is­ter and Mem­ber of Par­lia­ment, who raised con­cerns about the pro­posed award of the con­tracts to 11 con­trac­tors, ques­tion­ing the trans­paren­cy and le­gal­i­ty of the process.