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For over a cen­tu­ry, T&T has been in the oil busi­ness and for all 63 years of its in­de­pen­dence, the na­tion has leaned heav­i­ly on this re­source.

As econ­o­mist Dr Mar­i­ano Browne re­flect­ed on CNC 3’s The Morn­ing Brew yes­ter­day, the ques­tion is not just whether the coun­try dropped the ball. It is whether it ever tru­ly held it.

“There’s no ques­tion we could al­ways have been fur­ther along,” Browne said.