The on­go­ing scarci­ty of for­eign ex­change in T&T has be­come a source of sig­nif­i­cant pub­lic and po­lit­i­cal de­bate, but from a prag­mat­ic busi­ness per­spec­tive, the sit­u­a­tion is a dif­fi­cult and painful re­al­i­ty.

This from Econ­o­mist Dr Mar­i­ano Browne who wad­ed in on com­ments made by Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar that Gov­ern­ment in­tends to bring leg­is­la­tion that would al­low the Cen­tral Bank of to re­veal all forex al­lo­ca­tions.

Mean­while, for­mer fi­nance min­is­ter Colm Im­bert took to so­cial me­dia yes­ter­day to voice strong op­po­si­tion, em­pha­sis­ing the im­por­tance of pro­tect­ing fi­nan­cial in­for­ma­tion.