NHA record keeping bad

THE EDITOR: Recently, on television, I heard Mr Keith Rowley, the minister responsible for the National Housing Autho-rity saying that mortgagors are owing the NHA in excess of two hundred million dollars but I feel strongly he is wrong. My brother is a mortgagor. In the year 2000 he was told in writing that he owed $70,000 last year he owed $44,000 but this year it has gone up to $53,000. How could that be?

In another case, I know of a former prison officer in east Trinidad who has already paid for his house but up to February of this year the National Housing Authority has no record of his account. I have made several visits to the offices of the NHA on behalf of my relative and on one occasion I overheard an elderly woman in tears confiding to another person how she had long paid off the NHA for her house and now they want to throw her out. The whole of Trinidad and Tobago knows that NHA’s financial record keeping is not in order. I now call on Mr Rowley to appoint an independent firm of auditors so that he may get the true picture.

MATHILDA GOMEZ
Arouca