The Trinidad and To­ba­go Cham­ber of In­dus­try and Com­merce has ex­tend­ed con­grat­u­la­tions to Lar­ry Howai on his ap­point­ment as Gov­er­nor of the Cen­tral Bank of Trinidad and To­ba­go.

Gov­er­nor Howai pre­vi­ous­ly served as Min­is­ter of Fi­nance and has held ex­ec­u­tive roles in the bank­ing and fi­nan­cial ser­vices sec­tor. The Cham­ber stat­ed that his ex­pe­ri­ence po­si­tions him to lead the Cen­tral Bank at a sig­nif­i­cant pe­ri­od in the coun­try’s eco­nom­ic pro­gres­sion.

Ac­cord­ing to the Cham­ber, col­lab­o­ra­tion be­tween fi­nan­cial reg­u­la­tors and the busi­ness sec­tor re­mains nec­es­sary to ad­dress is­sues such as for­eign ex­change ac­cess, the mod­ern­iza­tion of pay­ment sys­tems, and sup­port for Small and Medi­um En­ter­pris­es (SMEs) and new in­dus­tries.