The Central Bank Governor laments that banks' lending patterns have remained virtually unchanged in the past decade- the emphasis being on consumer lending and mortgage lending.

Jeremie on CLICO: "I have to walk a very fine line about what I can disclose, I have said that my statement this afternoon is by way of exception..."

Professor Levitt says the problems are those generated by politics and therefore have to be fixed by political measures.

Petrotrin will have to pay 1.2 billion dollars in return for a 750 million dollar bond used by the company for upgrading its plant.

In an attempt to restore public confidence in government's decision to allocate five billion dollars into the bail out of CLICO and CL Financial, Minister Nunez-Tesheria points to the decision of the international rating agency Standard and Poors to remove T&T off its negative watch list as indicative of the wisdom of government to bail out CL.

Minister Dumas pointed out that 75 percent of total employment comes from the private sector and that the distribution of small businesses throughout the country is significant...

The report on the operations of the Fund notes that the value of the fund increased during last year from US$2.8 billion to US$2.9 billion.

Minister of Energy Conrad Enill says although this country has sufficient gas reserves to support its current planned activity till 2023 what is needed is a prioritisation of how gas will be allocated in the short to medium term.