Raphael John-Lall

In a bid to make in­for­ma­tion more ac­ces­si­ble to the pub­lic, the Cen­tral Bank of Trinidad and To­ba­go has up­grad­ed its Web site. Cen­tral Bank Gov­er­nor Ewart Williams said the Web site aims to be user friend­ly and eas­i­er to nav­i­gate. "Since the launch­ing of the Web site in 2004 there has been sig­nif­i­cant im­prove­ments in Web site tech­nol­o­gy and func­tion­al­i­ty," said Williams, in an au­dio clip ad­dress, at the Web site's launch at the Cen­tral Bank, Er­ic Williams' Fi­nan­cial Build­ing on Wednes­day.

"From a user stand­point the con­tent has been re-arranged for eas­i­er nav­i­ga­tion. For ex­am­ple, peo­ple search­ing for ex­am­ples on trea­sury bills and bonds can ac­cess all the in­for­ma­tion un­der the new menu item 'Gov­ern­ment's Se­cu­ri­ties,'" he said. Da­ta and sta­tis­tics, said Williams, will al­so be eas­i­er to ac­cess.

He al­so point­ed out that they have the ad­di­tion­al fea­ture of links of oth­er fi­nan­cial bod­ies on the Web site.

"We al­so have ac­cess links to oth­er rel­e­vant sites such as the De­posit In­sur­ance Cor­po­ra­tion, the Of­fice of Fi­nan­cial Ser­vices, the Om­buds­man along with lo­cal and re­gion­al reg­u­la­to­ry or­gan­i­sa­tions," he said. (RJL)