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		<title>Update: Trinidad and Tobago&#8217;s Current Financial Situation</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Honourable Colm Imbert, Minister of Finance, on Tuesday 10th March 2020, held a media conference to provide an update on the nation's current financial situation.]]></description>
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<p class="has-drop-cap">The Honourable Colm Imbert, Minister of Finance, on Tuesday 10th March 2020, held a media conference to provide the nation at large with an update on the current financial situation in the wake of the fall in crude oil prices due to the price war between Saudi Arabia and Russia and the impact sustained from COVID-19 (coronavirus).  </p>



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sizes="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" /><figcaption class="blocks-gallery-item__caption"> The Honourable Colm Imbert, Minister of Finance reviews and shares current statistics with the media. </figcaption></figure></li><li class="blocks-gallery-item"><figure><img decoding="async" width="683" height="1024" src="https://www.finance.gov.tt/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/DSC_0029-683x1024.jpg" alt="" data-id="36605" data-full-url="https://www.finance.gov.tt/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/DSC_0029-scaled.jpg" data-link="https://www.finance.gov.tt/?attachment_id=36605#main" class="wp-image-36605" srcset="https://www.finance.gov.tt/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/DSC_0029-683x1024.jpg 683w, https://www.finance.gov.tt/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/DSC_0029-200x300.jpg 200w, https://www.finance.gov.tt/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/DSC_0029-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://www.finance.gov.tt/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/DSC_0029-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, 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during the media conference held on Tuesday 10th March, 2020.  </figcaption></figure>
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