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Former permanent secretary in the Ministry of Finance Vishnu Dhanpaul landed at Piarco International Airport on Friday night to join the Stuart Young-led Government.

According to sources, Dhanpaul is to assume management of the Finance Ministry, replacing incumbent Colm Imbert, who served in that capacity for the entire ten-year tenure of outgoing Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley. Young is to be appointed prime minister tomorrow morning by President Christine Kangaloo.

Dhanpaul was most recently Trinidad and Tobago’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, but he has worked in the Ministry of Finance in progressive leadership roles for many years since the 1990s, before retiring in 2021.