Central Bank of Trinidad & Tobago Governor Larry Howai leads delegation to 2025 IMF and World Bank Annual Meetings and calls for rollback of trade barriers at G-24

The Central Bank of Trinidad & Tobago announced that Governor Larry Howai is leading the Trinidad and Tobago delegation attending the 2025 Annual Meetings of the World Bank Group and the International Monetary Fund in Washington, D.C., including the Annual Meeting of the Intergovernmental Group of Twenty Four on International Monetary Affairs and Development (G-24). In his statement to the G-24 Ministers and Governors meeting on 14 October, Howai called for concerted international action to roll back tariff and non-tariff barriers that distort trade and disproportionately affect developing economies, and argued that restoring confidence in a fair and transparent multilateral trading system is essential to revitalising global demand and investment. The meetings run from 13 to 18 October. The delegation includes Delvin Cox (Advisor to the Executive Director, World Bank Group), Kimberly Roberts (Trinidad and Tobago’s IMF representative), and Ministry of Finance officials Zarah Mohammed (Manager, Debt Management) and Stephanie Toolsie (Assistant Manager, Debt Management). The release also outlines that the G-24 coordinates developing countries’ positions on monetary and development issues in the deliberations and decisions of the Bretton Woods Institutions, focusing on issues on the agendas of the International Monetary and Financial Committee and the Development Committee.