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Caribbean Life, F 18 ebruary 21-27, 2020
CARIBBEAN ROUNDUP
pects of the Eastern Caribbean Currency
Union (ECCU).
The ECCB serves as the central bank
for the union, comprising Antigua and
Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, St. Lucia,
St. Vincent and the Grenadines, St.
Kitts-Nevis, Montserrat, Anguilla and
the British Virgin Islands.
Antoine during his week-long visit
held talks with Governor General Sir
Neville Cenac, Cabinet, as well as government
officials and representative of
the private sector and social partners.
The visit, which formed part of Antoine’s
“Country Outreach Visits,” provided
him with an opportunity “to listen to
leaders and citizens of the ECCU and to
share information about the performances
and prospects of the ECCU.”
Antoine also held talks with officials
from the St. Lucia Bankers’ Association,
and the main opposition St. Lucia
Labor Party (SLP).
Trinidad
Trinidad and Tobago has placed 85
out of 180 countries in the latest Corruption
Perception Index (CPI).
This was revealed by
Chairman of the Trinidad
and Tobago Transparency
Institute, Dion
Abdool at the recent
launch of the 2019 CPI which took place
at the Arthur Lok Jack Graduate School
Business in Mt. Hope.
The CPI ranks countries and territories
by their perceived levels of public
sector corruption, according to experts
and business people.
The index uses a scale of zero to 100,
where zero is highly corrupt and l00 is
very clean.
Abdool said the average score for
the CPI last year was 43. Trinidad and
Tobag scored 40.
In the 2018 CPI, T&T received a
score of 41 and was ranked 78th. T&T
also scored 41 in the 2017 CPI and was
ranked 77th.
“We are at a place where we have
not moved, when we should be going
upwards. There seems to be a downward
trend, this is what the data indicates,”
Abdool said.
He said the results clearly show that
Trinidad and Tobago needs to address
the “corrupting role of big money in
our politics.”
The Transparency Institute is therefore
calling on the government to make
the necessary changes to ensure that
deficiencies are corrected.
“We will continue to stagnate if we
do not take action,” he added.
Guyana tied with T&T last year (2019)
CPI. In 2018 Guyana placed 93 with a
score of 37.
With a score of 40, Guyana is a significant
improver on the CPI since 2012.
— Compiled by Azad Ali
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