Further to the earlier media release on this matter, Caribbean Airlines has just informed the Minister of Finance that while the figures the airline provided to him for public dissemination regarding the pilots’ salaries were correct, the figure for pilots’ allowances provided by CAL was incorrect.It is expected that CAL will promptly correct that inaccuracy.
The Minister of Finance, Hon. Colm Imbert, MP, has noticed yet another series of misleading and inaccurate stories about access to foreign exchange being peddled by the Trinidad Express as if these stories were factual. This media campaign is clearly mischievous, and it is necessary to set the record straight. EXIMBANK’s PURPOSE A perusal of…
The Minister of Finance, Honourable Colm Imbert, MP, wishes to advise that yesterday the Caribbean Court of Justice (“CCJ”) dismissed the claim brought by Ellis Richards and others against Trinidad and Tobago in relation to the CL Financial bailout in 2009, which excluded annuity and investment products issued by British American Insurance Company Limited (a…
The Minister of Finance has noted inaccurate and incomplete reporting by the Trinidad Guardian on the discussion on the Estimates of Expenditure for the Tobago House of Assembly.The manner in which the Guardian has reported on the deliberations in yesterday’s Standing Finance Committee meeting on the THA’s 2025 budgetary allocation is clearly designed to create…
More than one hundred (100) Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Trinidad and Tobago are set to receive a significant boost in financing to grow their operations and expand into new markets. The Minister of Finance, Hon. Colm Imbert and the Director Representative for CAF – Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean in…
The Minister of Finance, Hon. Colm Imbert, MP, wishes to advise that the 2025 Budget will be presented on Monday, September 30, 2024.
The Minister of Finance, Honourable Colm Imbert, MP, wishes to advise that today the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council on appeal from the Court of Appeal of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, unanimously dismissed the appeal in Civil App. No. P 351 of 2023 Terrisa Dhoray v. The Attorney General and the Trinidad…
On Friday September 13th the Minister of Finance led a debate on the Miscellaneous Provisions (Global Forum): Bill, 2024 that involved both Government and Opposition. On Saturday September 14th and Sunday September 15th, the Trinidad Newsday and Trinidad Express carried coverage of the debate and astonishingly reported the Opposition’s false allegations in the debate in…