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For­mer fi­nance min­is­ter Colm Im­bert has ques­tioned why Unit­ed Na­tion­al Con­gress (UNC) sup­port­ers have gone qui­et af­ter Cen­tral Bank Gov­er­nor Lar­ry Howai dis­missed long-stand­ing claims of a for­eign ex­change car­tel in T&T.

In a post on X Sat­ur­day, Im­bert wrote: “For 10 years, the Op­po­si­tion in­sist­ed that there was a forex car­tel in T&T. Now that the new UNC CBTT Gov­er­nor has con­firmed that there is no such car­tel and that cred­it card us­age has in­creased by 400 per cent, thus cre­at­ing a de­mand and sup­ply prob­lem, the UNC trolls are odd­ly silent. Why?”

Im­bert’s re­marks fol­lowed Howai’s me­dia en­gage­ment on Thurs­day, where he was asked di­rect­ly about the ex­is­tence of a car­tel. The gov­er­nor, a for­mer fi­nance min­is­ter in the Peo­ple’s Part­ner­ship ad­min­is­tra­tion, was un­equiv­o­cal say­ing, “From our per­spec­tive, we have no ev­i­dence of a car­tel.”