Our preliminary estimates suggest that the Trinidad and Tobago economy grew by 1.3 per cent in the first nine months of 2013, compared with a contraction of 0.3 per cent in the first nine months of 2012.
On-going large scale maintenance and safety upgrades at energy companies posed a considerable drag on the recovery process throughout 2013, especially in the third quarter when the energy sector underwent the largest co-ordinated maintenance effort to date.