The 11th ses­sion of the Cli­co/Hin­du Cred­it Union com­mis­sion of in­quiry re­sumes to­day on a sim­i­lar note to the one on which it end­ed last De­cem­ber–a prob­lem get­ting wit­ness­es to tes­ti­fy.

The last ses­sion end­ed four days be­fore the sched­uled date be­cause sev­er­al sched­uled wit­ness­es were out of the coun­try. To­day's hear­ing at the Win­sure Build­ing, Rich­mond Street, Port-of-Spain be­gins with­out the ev­i­dence of two ma­jor play­ers in the Cli­co de­ba­cle, for­mer CL Fi­nan­cial chair­man Lawrence Duprey and for­mer group fi­nan­cial di­rec­tor An­dre Mon­teil.

Both men have cit­ed a po­lice probe in­to the col­lapse of Cli­co as the rea­son for not at­tend­ing.

Com­mis­sion chair­man Sir An­tho­ny Col­man was up­set at the pre­ma­ture end of the last ses­sion, say­ing it was un­ac­cept­able. "We lost four days of hear­ing. This is not good," Col­man re­port­ed­ly said.

Ja­son Julien, fi­nan­cial an­a­lyst at the Se­cu­ri­ties and Ex­change Com­mis­sion, failed to tes­ti­fy at the last ses­sion. Col­man said it was "as­tound­ing" that a pub­lic body like the SEC could not find a sub­sti­tute wit­ness.

In June last year Col­man al­so com­plained about wit­ness­es not show­ing up for sched­uled hear­ings.For­mer CEO of HCU Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Gaw­tam Ram­nanan, for­mer HCU fi­nan­cial con­sul­tant Jameel Ali and Dave Jag­pat were held in con­tempt of the com­mis­sion for this rea­son.

The in­quiry start­ed in March 2011 and hear­ings are sched­uled to con­tin­ue un­til March 8.