The Cen­tral Bank said yes­ter­day that it is about to im­ple­ment mea­sures that are ex­pect­ed to “pro­vide mean­ing­ful re­lief” on the long-stand­ing is­sue of the avail­abil­i­ty of for­eign ex­change in the near to medi­um term.

The com­mit­ment of the Cen­tral Bank came af­ter its Gov­er­nor, Lar­ry Howai, along with the Min­is­ter of Fi­nance, Dav­en­dranath Tan­coo, Min­is­ter of Plan­ning, Eco­nom­ic Af­fairs and De­vel­op­ment Kennedy Swarats­ingh and Min­is­ter of En­er­gy Roodal Mooni­lal, met yes­ter­day with key stake­hold­ers in the en­er­gy sec­tor.

The meet­ing was held at the Cen­tral Bank’s con­fer­ence fa­cil­i­ties and cen­tred on mea­sures to ad­dress on­go­ing for­eign ex­change (forex) chal­lenges.