Caribbean & Central America - January 2014 (ISSN 1741-4458)

*** TRINIDAD PROJECTIONS SEEN TO BE REALISTIC. The Central Bank of Trinidad & Tobago is forecasting economic growth of 2.5% for 2014. Local economists believe this to be realistic, although some have said that the estimate of 1.5% growth for 2013 may have been affected by flooding in Eastern Caribbean countries in late December and a spate of Petrotrin oil spills which began on 17 December and which may have been the result of sabotage.

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