For a country in which the financial sector accounts for almost one-fifth of the non-energy economy and employs close to one-tenth of the non-energy workforce, many citizens in Trinidad and Tobago still have limited knowledge about basic financial practices and money management.
Certainly our economies, based on a plantation system of exploitation, was disfigured, but certainly in the early 1960s, when independence came to the region, the larger countries, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago were ahead of the East Asian NICs, and were in close proximity to the NICs’ largest market, the United States.