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THE HIGH COURT has dismissed a judicial review claim by a director of local beverage producer Ramsaran's Dairy Products (RDP) against the permanent secretary of the Ministry of Finance, on forex allocations over eight years.

Rajnanan Ramsaran had written to the ministry and the governor of the Central Bank in 2024, seeking documents relating to forex allocation policies, monitoring and reporting mechanisms, audit reports, historical data, total foreign exchange allocations to commercial banks from 2015 to 2023, and the actions of the Central Bank in response to customers denied forex.

Ramsaran, a founder of RDP, complained that foreign exchange in Trinidad and Tobago was not equally distributed and had sent freedom of information requests for the policy surrounding the distribution of foreign exchange.