Government will have have brought nearly a decade of the Bermuda College?s financial statements into the public domain in another two weeks.

Education Minister Terry Lister has been tabling the annual reports dating back to 1992 in the House of Assembly for the last three weeks after discovering that the financial statements had not been made public as required by the law.

And he told yesterday that although the Progressive Labour Party Government had been criticised in the past for lack of transparency, the former United Bermuda Party Government had failed to table the reports for six years.

Mr. Lister said all of the reports were ready on time and the Bermuda College was not to blame for them not being made public.

He said he could not say why the UBP failed to file them from 1992 to 1998.

Mr. Lister said he only recently found out that none of the College?s financial reports from 1992 had been tabled so he broke them into groups and will table two or three sets each week bringing them up to 2002.

The 2003/2004 reports have not been completed yet.

He admitted that from 1998 to 2002 it was the job of the PLP to table the reports but Mr. Lister, who has only been the Minister of Education since the end of January, 2004, said: ?Basically, it had just been forgotten about.?

He added the downside to the reports not being tabled was that the public were kept in the dark as to the progress of the College.

On Friday, reports from 1998 and 1999 will be tabled in the House, said Mr. Lister, and after that three more reports will bring the tabling up to date.