Good to see you again. Glad you enjoy the Limes.From credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s on Tuesday (emphasis and in-line explanations mine): NEW YORK, Feb. 3, 2009–Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services said today that it placed its ‘A/A-1′ foreign-currency and ‘A+/A-1′ local-currency sovereign credit ratings on the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago on CreditWatch [...]
From a note issued by analysts at JP Morgan, emphasis mine: The Central Bank late on Friday announced that it would bail out a number of financial services companies—Clico Investment Bank (CIB), Clico Insurance Company (CLICO), British American Insurance Company (BAICO) and Caribbean Money Market Brokers (CMMB)—within the CL Financial Group, which have recently been [...]
BREAKING: Friday 30th January, 2009 CL Chairman, Lawrence Duprey confirms that government will intervene in CLICO, British American and CLICO Investment Bank. Mr Duprey says this is just pre-emptive action and he does not believe that it will be a crisis. Central Bank governor says CLICO manages 38 billion in assets or a quarter of [...]