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The Cen­tral Bank of Trinidad and To­ba­go has sus­pend­ed the roll­out of its 2025 se­ries $100 poly­mer ban­knote, fol­low­ing a di­rec­tive from the Min­is­ter of Fi­nance to halt pro­duc­tion of notes fea­tur­ing the re­vised Coat of Arms.

In a state­ment is­sued yes­ter­day, the Cen­tral Bank said it had in­struct­ed its con­tract­ed print­er to stop all work re­lat­ed to the print­ing, de­sign and prepa­ra­tion of the new notes “un­til fur­ther no­tice”.

The bank had pre­vi­ous­ly an­nounced that the up­dat­ed $100 note would en­ter pub­lic cir­cu­la­tion by Sep­tem­ber 2025. It was to in­clude a larg­er se­cu­ri­ty strip, holo­graph­ic el­e­ments, and a new Coat of Arms fea­tur­ing the na­tion­al in­stru­ment—the steel­pan—re­plac­ing the three ships as­so­ci­at­ed with Christo­pher Colum­bus.