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Oil-rich Trinidad forced to borrow more after CLICO bailout
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By Oscar Ramjeet:
Caribbean Net News Special Correspondent -
Email: oscar@caribbeannetnews.com:

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad: CL Financial’s crisis will force the Trinidad and Tobago government to borrow more this year to sustain its rescue of the cash-strapped conglomerate.

Central Bank Governor Ewart Williams said on Wednesday that plunging oil prices had already forced the country to curb its expenditure and could lead to increased borrowing this year.

The Trinidad Express reported that Williams pointed out that "the CL Financial crisis will add to that borrowing," he told businessmen and investors while delivering an address at the opening of the Financial and Economic Forum 2009 hosted by the British Caribbean Chamber of Commerce in Port of Span.

Williams said the CLICO and CLICO Investment Bank crisis was systemic and "clearly we need to update the legislation". He also noted, however that the Central Bank recognised that CLICO was extremely profitable for many years, but had major vulnerabilities because of inter-party related transactions between CLICO and CLICO Financial and its other subsidiaries.

He said the Central Bank attempted to put restrictions on CLICO using money for inter-party transactions from its statutory reserve fund, but the company exploited loopholes, took risks with depositors' funds and bent the rules for years.

CLICO also resisted attempts by the Central Bank to have the country's largest insurance company run more safely after consultation, and the Bank recognised that it could have ended up in a very long legal battle with CLICO, Williams said.

He added that CLICO/CIB crisis was a major one for the region, but the government and the Central Bank had "contained the spillover" for now.

Williams went to New York on Thursday with the Finance Minister, and the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Finance to meet with international ratings agencies.

March 13, 2009

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